What do you say to this: to say that you don't know is the highest knowledge
By whiteheron
@whiteheron (4222)
United States
June 30, 2008 3:00pm CST
To say that you don't know is perhaps the highest knowledge...
What you "know" is a fragment of the totality that is known at the core of your being....
There is much that you hold inside of you
that is not governed by words, or forms
but is instead governed by spirit...
These things are true
and you know them to be true
by feeling, by faith, and by trusting
in a greater wisdom...
5 responses
@BeckyAnn (265)
• United States
30 Jun 08
"The greatest knowledge is admitting you know nothing."
A somewhat different wording, same absolutely true idea. It's not in human nature, though, to admit our faults, and to beat that nature and admit our own insignificance is a great deal harder than being arrogant and claiming to know everything.
I'm actually an arrogant person, to be honest, but I've come to acknowledge where my faults lie. Still, I haven't figured out how to blow off my cockiness.
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@whiteheron (4222)
• United States
30 Jun 08
It is rather difficult...
The ego is rather strong in me too...
the desire to be right...
it tends to like asserting itself.
I well understand where you are coming from.
@BeckyAnn (265)
• United States
1 Jul 08
That's why it's so common to see discussions on controversial topics that have so many people putting their two cents in, with nobody wanting to give in to the other, too. Everyone wants to be right, whether they realize it or not. They're not fighting for their morals, they're fighting because they think their morals are right.
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@whiteheron (4222)
• United States
1 Jul 08
There is indeed no way to know everything... It is a good thing that we can remember what has happened to us. There are some people who are not that lucky.
@urbandekay (18278)
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11 Jul 08
Wisest is he, who knows he knows naught
all the best urban
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@whiteheron (4222)
• United States
27 Sep 08
And wiser still is the one who knows that he is naught... or so I have heard. Thanks for posting.
@klaudyou (501)
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3 Jul 08
It's true if the fact that you don't know makes you curious about that thing...and when asking again, the answer would be again an invitation to knowledge...
In the words you wrote, it's not the surrender we need to see, but the ever curiosity, the need to learn more and more.
Admitting you don't know should be a self-perfecting method.
@whiteheron (4222)
• United States
5 Jul 08
So if one should keep on asking the questions that inquiry would be what is then the context or subtext which one would live ones life by... living the questions... Is this what you are meaning?
@aryajayaprakash (1643)
• Japan
5 Jul 08
Ya, We know something about everything. Nothing may not be something. But as I just posted in one reply, dear Whiteheron (884), you live 100 years, you will never know GOD. and other thing is your wife.
@whiteheron (4222)
• United States
5 Jul 08
I am hoping that you do not really believe that a wife is unknowable as if you believe that then perhaps you are no longer trying to understand her... In the case of human relationships, there is the ability to ask questions of each other, to say, "honey what do you think about this?" I noticed that when I said this, you frowned, what is it that troubles you?" "How is it that you like to me to show you that I love you?" "What is it that would make you happy if I did it." "What did your parents do to express love for each other?" "What would you like for our anniversary or for your birthday present?" "Where would you like to go for vacation?" etc. It is laziness to say that a woman is unknowable or a lack of caring... The woman is expected often to understand the man and to help him to be more happy... The man has an equal responsiblity... To say a woman, a wife, is unknowable sounds like a cop out or an excuse for the lack of effort.
In the case of God, you and I and all else that exists is an expression of divinity... God is as intimate as your own breath... as intimate as your hand and your heart, and as intimate as your wife if you are married and as intimate as your enemy if you have one... and yet beyond full knowing unless one can merge perhaps and have that personality dissolve or seem to dissolve into oneness with that... The how of that is the quest for many.
