Fundamental Mystery
Marvel in the complexity and incomprehensibility of the Universe we are part of.
do Your Own Thinking, and remember that knowledge and truth have a complicated relationship; even accurate knowledge is incomplete—Hidden Complexity—and as you find Humility in knowing how little you know—Uncertain Knowing—take time to reflect on how little any of us can know.
In this scientific age where there seems to be an answer for everything, we’ve lost the sense that there are things we may never understand.
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Science can’t tell us why things work the way they do; it can only describe how things work. This knowledge allows us to harness the principles of Universe, but it doesn’t diminish the mystery of that Universe.
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There are a number of questions that cannot be answered by science, but that is not to say that we can’t answer them for ourselves. We almost always have an assumed answer, what you might think of as a working hypothesis.
Therefore:
From time to time, ask yourself the unknowable questions and listen carefully to how you answer them. Try to answer them, not by what you’ve been told to believe, but by what your experiences and intuition tell you.
Work to tap into your Felt Senses as a way of coming to terms with these big questions