For faith to be balanced it is vital that we examine closely the recipient of our heart, because delivered with our heart is our life's energy. To offer the heart is not like offering a fingernail or a lock of hair we were ready to discard anyway; it is to offer the core, the most essential part of our being. To offer the heart with full respect for the power of that offering means looking intently and carefully where it is going.
— Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience