Tavan on belief

And so Mark moved to sit before the fire with the staff across his knees and his hands lightly clasped and resting over it. Tavan having moved off a bit to the right spoke to his profile.
Tavan; Now rest your eyes and your attention on this fire and as you breath take it into yourself and feel its vibrance permeate your flesh. Feel it beginning in your spine and spreading into your neck and scull, shoulders and arms. With the ebb and flow of your every breath it goes further rising and falling waking the very hairs on your toes."
As Mark followed these instructions, letting the energy of his life bleed into him from the fire, Tavan removed his scabbard and the toothed gauntlets he wore and lay them aside then came to sit beside him before the fire.
Tavan; This is how you might greet the fire within yourself, these feelings of sensation which are running through you and around you are you. And it is here, whilst you take into yourself what is yours for the living of this life and you build your awareness around the sensations of being alive, I will talk to you of belief and how you are as inseparable from belief as you are inseparable from perception.
In this I will tell you nothing fantastical or radical, you would come to much of this with a little consideration of your own, but I would like to say it out in order to form a grounding for further thought. There is no beginning of belief at which I may start this telling, as easy for me to find the beginning of living. In every interaction of every element of your mind there is belief, belief in sensory perceptions, belief in memories and an ingrained irrefutable belief that the world around you is the world around you and that an idea you have is an idea you have. Believing is both the cause and result of choice.
This is not to say that belief can cause results but that beliefs cause your choices which have results and the results of your choices cause your beliefs. I am choosing not to delve into the myriad possible examples of where you may find belief is the conduit for all interrelations in your living in the belief that whilst you greet the fire of life with your breath you may find them yourself. Sit here for a time feeling your life flow within you as you are warmed in the fire of life and consider this, both faith and knowledge are subject to belief which is itself subject to choice."