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All the Answers or……
The Search for Intelligent Life Continues
When the spirit learns something for the first time, we call it an epiphany. That makes it so scientific, that all aspects of awe and wonder are often stolen from the moment. They’re the moments that we would otherwise call spiritual.
It’s spiritual moments that carry us through life, to the day we die. The day that we die is generally the day that we STOP learning. It follows then that to reject learning while we’re alive is to subject ourselves to a living death.
I don’t imagine that it could be easy to be both a masochist and a spiritual person.
That first second of full understanding of a concept, a spiritual moment IF we remember to savor that second. In today’s world, people who take the time to notice the spiritual moments can be hard to find.
Too many of us think that we have all the answers about any given topic. Too many think that they really only need to have a rudimentary grasp of a concept of how to do a thing and that will make them an expert in that field. Sometimes, we’re right:
Americans Use Just 37 Percent Of Information Learned In School, Survey Finds.
At the same time, the old axiom applies: Use it or Lose it.
The fact of our brains remaining healthy as a benefit of continued learning is well established: