by Simply Well Written | Jul 10, 2022 | Writing Samples
The Challenge of Knowing Part 6 of ‘Surrender to the Mystery: On Knowing and the Power of Not-Knowing’ Why do we need to know? We are intentional beings, capable of crafting our experience, who need to inform ourselves and make assumptions in order to act in the...
by Simply Well Written | Jul 9, 2022 | Writing Samples
The Nature of Knowledge Part 5 of ‘Surrender to the Mystery: On Knowing and the Power of Not-Knowing’ What is Knowledge? Our relationship to words is the result of our relationship to the concepts they represent. One result of this is that many people use the...
by Simply Well Written | Jul 8, 2022 | Writing Samples
Great Mystery Part 4 of ‘Surrender to the Mystery: On Knowing and the Power of Not-Knowing’ We Live Within a State of Not-Knowing Life is a mystery. There is no way around that. Why there is something rather than nothing is a mystery. Why there is a universe as...
by Simply Well Written | Jul 7, 2022 | Writing Samples
The Root of Wisdom Part 3 of ‘Surrender to the Mystery: On Knowing and the Power of Not-Knowing’ Some words from The Wise When I was studying philosophy I often heard a famous saying attributed to Socrates, which could be paraphrased as ‘the only thing I know is that...
by Simply Well Written | Jul 5, 2022 | Writing Samples
A World of Perspective Part 2 of ‘Surrender to the Mystery: On Knowing and the Power of Not-Knowing’ Communication can be challenging. Most of our communication is non-verbal. When we share, it is not just the ideas we speak that we are conveying, but also the...