Awareness of how little we know and how little we are.

Only when you understand that depth of your own ignorance, only when you understand how little you know, are you ready to develop the lifelong habit that will best support learning.

Only when you are free from conventional thinking, free to doubt what you have been taught about the World, can you imagine a whole new way to see the World and your place in it.

This need to imagine a better World than the one you know is another reason why everything important in life is unknown.

The imagination is the beginning and end of any search for meaning, the connection between the World you live in and the one you would shape for yourself.

May you find fellow companions that will help you uncover your ignorance of the World so that you may be free to explore the unknown – because everything important in life is unknown.

We laugh, we cry,
We live, we die,
and when we’re gone, the world goes on.
We love, we hate, we learn too late,
How small we are, how little we know.

We hear, we touch, we talk too much,
of things we have no knowledge of.
We see, we feel,
yet can’t conceal,
How small we are, how little we know.

See how the time moves swiftly by,
We don’t know how, we don’t know why.

We reach so high, and fall so low,
The more we learn, the less we know.

Too soon the time to go will come,
Too late the will to carry on,
And so we leave too much undone,
How small we are how little we know.

Earl Wilson, Jr.