Basically, faith is a waystation on the way to belief. In a true sense, faith is the process of gaining belief and establishing it as a working principle that becomes a foundational part of the inner makeup, and is a robust and concrete expression of one’s view of things as the current reality, so to speak. As such, it is the firmest foundation one can have, to truly believe in something. If you think about your perspectives across the board, many will have this characteristic of being beliefs. Faith comes into play when belief is not quite attainable but one wants to believe and thus must have faith that the provisional belief is worthy and a correct one to hold and serves the self in some way. Otherwise, it is mere conjecture for the moment, a hypothetical possibility, but not one with any real conviction behind it. Faith is an expression of conviction that belief is justified but is not a firm and total belief that it is so. In that sense, belief is the ultimate goal in wanting to approach enlightenment, a true high-level understanding of reality with respect to something.
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