In my experience as a therapist, people who believe nothing but facts, are very unhappy.
As far as I could withness, it is due to the “sterilisation” of life they enforce on themselfs.
Let’s ask: what is a fact? for example, we can take the giant ball of fire hanging in outer space we call “Sun”, if I was to tell you there is a giant ball of fire hanging in the sky you would not believe me. But you do have faith that the sun is a giant ball of fire in outer space. Why do I call it faith? because despite the fact that the sun was “proved” to be a giant ball of fire, you have no proof it is true! you haven’t withnessed the proof yourself, nor did yo meet the person who proved it to see that he is right in his head, nor did you ever check how it was proven! No one was ever really on the sun and despite that, you believe that the sun is so because you, all of us, were told so repeatedly since childhood.
Think about it, it could be the world’s greatest lie…
I hear a lot of people saying they don’t believe in something that they can’t prove, without really experiencing it. Like Reiki energy, for example: I have proof it exists because I have felt it many times and had withnessed the effect of it. The people who deny Reiki, are usually people who have not tried to experience it, they base on the facts as they know them. Sometimes we don’t have all the facts, even when we think we do, science finds new facts almost everyday!
It is important to understand that as humans, we don’t have all the facts, that’s why we need faith and belief. How do we know what to believe? that’s a topic for a new question….