{"id":1629,"date":"2012-06-11T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lettinggo\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2012-06-04T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:58:07","slug":"let-self-knowledge-light-the-way-ahead-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2012\/06\/let-self-knowledge-light-the-way-ahead-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Let Self-Knowledge Light the Way Ahead, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over time our values have been subtly shifting away from the love of <em>the wisdom of life<\/em> to the excitement of striving to win at life, from the possibility of a self-renewing relationship with eternal forces to the promise of increasingly one-sided interactions with what amounts to little more than the pursuit of temporary possessions.<\/p>\n<p>Only the ignorance of ourselves to what is possible for each of us to actually be, as opposed to what we hope to have &#8212; but never seem to secure &#8212; could allow such a meaningless state of self to persist and become self-perpetuating. Only self-ignorance would accept a mediocre life as the inescapable conclusion to the deep discontentment inherent in any direction supplied by self-ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>What this proves, if we\u2019ll agree to reflect upon the truth being presented, is that higher self-knowledge, real wisdom, represents the rudder we must have to correct the course of this drifting ship we call self. Why? Because the happy truth is that we are not so much lost in the sea of choices life offers us as we are just adrift amongst them; caught up in their ever-changing currents and unsure as to which shore is our homeland. So wisdom is not only the higher course, but our safe harbor as well&#8230; [to be continued]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over time our values have been subtly shifting away from the love of the wisdom of life to the excitement of striving to win at life, from the possibility of a self-renewing relationship with eternal forces to the promise of increasingly one-sided interactions with what amounts to little more than the pursuit of temporary possessions.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,39],"tags":[1205,1156,844,91],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enlightenment-self-realization","category-meaning-of-life-lifes-purpose","tag-choices","tag-graduation","tag-self-knowledge","tag-wisdom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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