Spiritual Aspects of Knowledge

Grasping at definite meaning or expectation can lead to unhappiness

Surrender to god’s mind or grace (radical openness) can achieve calmness

Accuracy and refinement of knowledge can give control

Management of information can give control and group integration

Personal knowledge restricted to that gained from experience prevents overreaching

Having an awareness of one’s cares loosens one’s soul or emotional being

The pleasures of conversations and jokes are music made from the cares of knowing

How we know is directly part of how we love

Having margins of flexibility in knowing allows creativity and play even with the obvious

Ritual and social protocol knowledge offer socially binding comfort