05-09-2021, 03:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-09-2021, 03:35 AM by Louisabell.)
This topic of what is known, what cannot be known, etc. is a pretty interesting one to me. These are questions I ask myself a lot. For me, knowing that you cannot know shows up as being able to hold a capacity for ambiguity in one's life. I see this ambiguity as being more qualitative than quantitative, therefore being able to be carried into all our interactions in various degrees. I see how the more ambiguity we can integrate into our perceptions, the more open we can be to alternative possibilities or yet-to-be-conceived-of solutions to any problems afoot.
So there is a power that can be harnessed in knowing that we don't know, but that also needn't detract from the power that can be found in thought or belief. To believe in certain things, such as our own capacity to complete a task, is extremely helpful, moving us to cause effects in this world that tend towards that which is beneficial for us and others. If we didn't believe we could complete a task, then we might not even bother trying it in the first place.
So, as Black Dragon spoke to so well, everything that we have at our disposal: our intellect, our will, our faith, our intuition, our capacity for ambiguity and our capacity for belief, all of it is most important and useful to us, and to STO polarisation when all these facilities are employed in service to the light.
However, I do hold the opinion that the current culture we live in is skewed towards a reliance on belief, and a little bit more space for ambiguity or uncertainty wouldn't go astray.
So there is a power that can be harnessed in knowing that we don't know, but that also needn't detract from the power that can be found in thought or belief. To believe in certain things, such as our own capacity to complete a task, is extremely helpful, moving us to cause effects in this world that tend towards that which is beneficial for us and others. If we didn't believe we could complete a task, then we might not even bother trying it in the first place.
So, as Black Dragon spoke to so well, everything that we have at our disposal: our intellect, our will, our faith, our intuition, our capacity for ambiguity and our capacity for belief, all of it is most important and useful to us, and to STO polarisation when all these facilities are employed in service to the light.
However, I do hold the opinion that the current culture we live in is skewed towards a reliance on belief, and a little bit more space for ambiguity or uncertainty wouldn't go astray.