FAITH, BELIEF AND TRADITION
Keywords:
Faith, Belief, TraditionAbstract
It is an enigma of human thinking that man has always tried to understand himself, yet has given himself up to "faith" rather than to "understanding". Faith is just that which one fails to understand. Yet man often prefers to stand under the spell of that "understood", Understanding, when it really becomes the "standing" under the spell of that which is sought to be understood, turns out to be one's faith.
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