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smooth, it is in fact the only thing that solves our problem of life.‖ When we consider FAITH we for definite do not mean DOGMA nor do we mean BELIEF. Faith is an overwhelming necessity, which in the final resort overrides all our actions and beliefs. At times it even seems as if Faith is simply another name for God, it is that in which we live, move and have our being. A rudimentary faith precedes any action, without it we could never make the first step, that first tentative move.
Before we even knew we could take our first step, we had already embarked on that exercise and thus we started to walk. Walking, for the intellectual may be a matter of questioning the reasons for our earlier stages of development being confined to sitting, rolling over and crawling and consequent development. But that is not the case. There is faith in the individual that make him develop to a higher state. Without that step of faith, our lives are restricted in terms of both action and thought. We breathe because we can; it is not an act of reason or a rational decision. It is Life and it simply is. For most
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