Senior hand reaching toward a vintage light switch. Photo: By Gris de Paris on Unsplash.
The long run: Daniel Clarke Flynn’s Thought for the Week
‘The longer I live, the less I know.’
The longer I live, the less I know, and the more capable I am of seeing whatever I hadn’t noticed before. Knowledge can be a barrier to learning, and I sometimes feel that I have to let go of what I know in order to see more. ‘Seeing’ gives way to ‘vision’. Life becomes most fulfilling as an adventure of life-long learning. My attitude becomes, ‘I don’t know, others might, I need to listen’. That takes humility, openness, curiosity, imagination and intuition. Such practice leads me to choice, which some call free will, our highest human capacity, not yet found elsewhere in creation. Challenges and failures become stepping stones to seeing from broader perspectives.
