1.The difference between Knowledge and Understanding.
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9. Therefore Understanding is always the more difficult than Knowledge, but always the more substantial.
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10. Understanding belongs to oneself and is therefore internally validated. The lure of Knowledge is that it is externally validated.
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11. In the Information Age it's never been easier to seek and acquire knowledge and attempt to create an identity and a narrative around it.
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12. Despite its advantage as a signalling good, Knowledge remains limited; it represents our relationship to the external, not the internal.
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13. Knowledge is only a method of relating to our surroundings. It can facilitate, but it is not meant to be our relationship to ourselves.
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14. If our only relationship with the world is Knowledge we become intellectuals—the mind dominates existence, at the expense of the heart.
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15. The intellectual is never at ease! Their minds crave more "food" while their hearts remains undernourished; it's all topsy-turvy.
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16. The mind can't be satisfied no matter how much Knowledge it acquires—by nature it builds castles in the sand, here today, gone tomorrow.
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17. The archetypal neurotic intellectual is neurotic precisely because he can't hold on to the castle of Knowledge without fearing the tide.
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18. Knowledge, coming from the outside in—being conditional—must always be uncertain; the tide may come tomorrow and wash it all away.
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19. Understanding, coming from the inside-out, will always be certain; the tide may indeed come but the structure of the castle will remain.
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20. In Understanding, one does not fear the tide of change; in fact one welcomes it, as nourishment, as a necessity to their own substance.
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21. The substantial, that which creates meaning, is Understanding. To gain it you must pay the price; expose yourself to the elements.
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22. Try to subsist on Knowledge alone and you will be rootless, and afraid of it. You will climb more rungs on a ladder facing the abyss.
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23. As the old Zen proverb goes "Knowing others is Wisdom; knowing oneself is Enlightenment". Thank you for reading. See you again on 29/12.
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