To gain knowledge, add something everyday.
To gain wisdom, remove something everyday. –Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

As a child, I was a voracious reader. I absorbed any and all information that was fed to me. I had an insatiable appetite for information. I wanted to know things. As I got older, I got bored with information. I just never seemed to know enough and when I acquired the knowledge I was disappointed that it didn’t answer THE question. The problem was I didn’t even know what THE question was.

After a while, I gave up on finding knowledge in books and turned my attention to experience. I started to work on this deliberately about 3 years ago. Experience brings me closer, but it is still out there. It is still a reaction to, or consequence of, what happens inside. Finally, I figured out the question. It is, what drives the outside? Who is having this experience? What lies behind all of life?

The answer is not in knowledge, but in Knowing. It is not in books, or experience, it is in getting out of the way and letting It shine through. I would say experience It, but it’s not an external thing. It’s more of an insperience. It comes from within. It can only be perceived, grokked. And when known, it is so beautiful, so sublime, so simple, that all the knowledge in the world becomes obsolete.

Now when I want to understand how something works or why something is, I am led by this internal wisdom to the right external resource.

In Spirit,
Nneka