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When we begin to give up the formal, creedal faith of our youth, accepting that no religion is entirely true and no sacred text was actually written by God, many people will abandon the journey of faith entirely. But for those of us who find value in a spiritual life, we are inclined to turn away from the false certainty of formal religion and turn towards the more honest uncertainty of a mystical faith in which we accept the \\u201cisness\\u201d of God, as Meister Eckhart said, \\u201cGod is a word unspoken, a thought not thought, a belief unbelieved.\\u201d For those of us raised in a formal church, the mental prison of belief is hard to leave behind . . . especially for the clergy!