Quote Originally Posted by Misha Tal View Post
I'm not religious, but I believe in God. If it was all up to me, if I were asked to choose whether I want to live in a world with a God or a world otherwise, I'm sure I'd pick the one with a God.
This looks like a first stage. It makes one's usual life more comfortable but may fail to help in a harder situation.

One recipe to go further is:
- to "look into the abyss until the abyss starts to look into you" (hi to Nietzsche!);
- to catch the glance (usually it requires many attempts) and keep it until you feel enough comfortable;
- to try to review your beliefs while keeping the feeling.

This kind of training usually leads to the faith of better quality but has a risk to obtain unexpected shift in beliefs, which may be in bad agreement with the traditions of your society.