The Question of Believing or Knowing

People will sometimes viciously defend their beliefs, but fail to see the fear hiding behind them. Certain that they are right and relying on them to establish an identity it never occurs to most people to challenge or investigate them.  This fear is because they are uncertain that anything exists beyond the belief itself. They have not found an idea bigger or better than the one that they currently believe in. Awareness is not a belief, though many will have ideas about what it is and how it works. It is this fear of trusting what we feel and the courage to leave outdated beliefs behind that makes us prisoners to fear when life itself challenges the beliefs. Life will always challenge beliefs because awareness is the final answer to the question of what is truth.