FAITH

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
 -Aristotle

* complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
* strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.

Faith is confidence or trust in a person or thing that is not seen; or the observance of an obligation from loyalty; or fidelity to a person, promise, engagement; or a belief not based on proof; or it may refer to a particular system of religious belief,^[1] such as in which faith is confidence based on some degree of warrant.^[2][3] The term 'faith' has numerous connotations and is used in different ways, often depending on context.

Stages of faith

1. Intuitive-Projective: a stage of confusion and of high impressionability through stories and rituals. (Pre-school period)
2. Mythic-Literal: a stage where provided information is accepted in order to conform with social norms. (School-going period)
3. Synthetic-Conventional: In this stage the faith acquired is concreted in the belief system with the forgoing of personification and replacement with authorityin individuals or groups that represent one's beliefs. (Early-late adolescence)
4. Individuative-Reflective: In this stage the individual critically analyzes adopted and accepted faith with existing systems of faith. Disillusion or strengthening of faith happens in this stage. Based on needs, experiences and paradoxes. (Early adulthood)
5. Conjunctive faith: In this stage people realize the limits of logic and, facing the paradoxes or transcendence of life, accept the "mystery of life" and often return to the sacred stories and symbols of the pre-acquired or re-adopted faith system. This stage is called negotiated settling in life. (Mid-life)
6. Universalizing faith: This is the "enlightenment" stage where the individual comes out of all the existing systems of faith and lives life with universal principles of compassion and love and in service to others for upliftment, without worries and doubt. (Middle - late adulthood (45-65yrs and plus)

No hard-and-fast rule requires individuals pursuing faith to go through all six stages. There is a high probability for individuals to be content and fixed in a particular stage for a lifetime; stages from 2-5 are such stages. Stage 6 is the summit of faith development. This state is often^[quantify] considered as "not fully" attainable.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. 
-Khalil Gibran

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.' 
-Dalai Lama

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. 
-Thomas Jefferson

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