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In a lot of mystical Catholic and Buddhist writings I find the concept of not knowing and it is viewed as a good thing in the spiritual life. From personal experience, I think it is a good thing for me. As sure as I come to think I know something, it tends to start losing its wonder to me. Any spiritual activity without a touch of wonder starts to become mechanical. When the wonder is gone, it ceases to feed the soul. Some fundamentalists may view Einstein as a non-spiritual man but he walked around all of his life in a state of wonder. I once clipped a dozen great quotes on wonder from a magazine article about Einstein and scattered them throughout my personal journal. I captured some of my own wonder in my song, Jesus Paints A Beautiful Life”
A rose can make me sigh With a drop of dew in the corner of its eye Sometimes a sunset can make me laugh and cry When I was a young child, I spent an entire Sunday watching an anthill at work. I put out tiny balls of bread and watched them carry it into their underground home. If a ball were too big, they would break it down into tiny pieces. The next morning mother woke me for school and I said, “Doggone it, I wanted to watch the ants some more.” She said, “That’s as important as anything you might learn at school today, so stay home and do that.” What a wise mother! Who has lived a life on this gorgeous blue pearl planet without feeling some of these sweet soul things? Maybe there are people who don’t have inner awe equipment, but I find it hard to believe that is possible. Not knowing is a stimulus to creativity. As we meditate on what we know, we tend to take it all for granted but as we ponder what we don’t know, ideas bubble within us. Possibilities emerge. Not knowing can lead to new insights that feed the deep inner being. Like most things of value in this life, harmony and balance is valuable. Knowing and not knowing have their own unique flashes of light to shine on our pathway. Dalton’s website is www.daltonroberts.com and his writings are gathered at www.ipsfeatures.com.
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