You don’t know anything

 

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We don’t know anything.

I’m convinced that the sooner we accept and believe that, the sooner we’ll begin on the road to knowing more than 99% of the people out there.

Because 99% of people know enough to keep them comfortable and limited, trapped in the bounds of the “societal norms.”

When we come to the realization that our knowledge is less than a speck of what can be known, we’ll experience a kind of hunger that we’ve never known.

A hunger to learn and grow and become better than we were yesterday.

And we shouldn’t be fooled. Wisdom isn’t hiding. It’s calling out. If we’re missing it, it’s because we’re just not listening.

“Out in the open wisdom calls aloud, she raises her voice in the public square; on top of the wall she cries out, at the city gate she makes her speech…”

(Prov 1:20-21)

Especially in this day and age where information is everywhere, finding wisdom is not a matter of “can” but “will.”

And if we begin to seek it and find it, our life cannot remain unchanged. It’s impossible.

“When you collect consciousness to broaden your perspective, or increase your level of mind, the profound reveals itself like a puzzle.

One finite pixel in the image will show, and you will label that as fact, until you realize that one pixel was only a figment of an infinite masterpiece.”

 ~Dan Koe, The Art of Focus. 

Anything we learn and think we know, no matter how vast it seems, will never completely encompass the whole of the reality of the thing.

Labeling things as “fact” is only okay if we don’t know we don’t know.

When our eyes are opened, our “facts” should decrease.

This is the nature of reality.

It’s complex, involved, nuanced.

Even with that daunting thought, it should be remembered that truth exists and can be known.

Principles can be understood.

And finding those truths—those principles—is like finding a spring in the Sahara.

It’s like getting a new life.

But let’s get to the starting line.

Let’s begin to accept that we don’t know what we don’t know.

This is critical.

Not just to knowing, but to so many other things!

So have you accepted it yet?

That you know nothing?

Hurry up, because that’s the beginning, middle, and end.

Maybe.

What do I know?

~Niquey

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