The Pursuit Of Knowledge (Η Επιδίωξη της Γνώσης)

-From my text on the Logos (The Word).

Life has many paths to take, but there is the one path that reflects the truth that embodies its virtues and philosophy. It is the pursuit of knowledge. It is not the knowledge that we are taught to learn in our primary education, because it is beyond that established concept. It is a knowledge that becomes wisdom and from that wisdom our thoughts reach the deepest state of consciousness and contemplation. There is a vast unknown of life and reality that we simply cannot resolve with our limited knowledge. Thus, we depend on our wisdom to apply meaning and reason to things of actual substance. We are born with the capacity to be knowers, but we must gain knowledge in order to understand wisdom. If not, then our minds would be rendered futile and be empty like dark space. We are doers of our own actions and thinkers of our own creativity. We live in the material world and the world of our ideas.

Philosophy is true to the belief that we are able to conceive knowledge through the compatibility with our intelligence. The fruition that we seek is attainable and rewarded by our effort. It is not the reward itself that matters, but the knowledge we have achieved. We could evoke many facts that are proposed to be accurate in their relevance and accept them, or we could think about the validity of their meaning. A meaning that defines our understanding of the truth. We should never be satisfied with only the knowledge that we have. We should continue to learn more things about the world that we are a part of its greater order. The operating cosmos and nature are present, and what we observe about them, induces our thoughts to discover the potentiality of their forms and concepts.

A man who is knowledgeable in philosophical teachings is a man who practises what he knows. He does not need to be an erudite of a particular discipline or study. He is wise and sought, because of his virtues and his character. To think is no different than to know. They are both applicable to life. To pursue knowledge is something that outweighs the need for inventing falsehoods. We should meditate the reason that we seek knowledge and what purpose does it serve us in the greater vision of life? We should be teachers unto those that yearn for our knowledge, and we should not consider ignorant those individuals, whose knowledge is in its substance basic and flawed. We must remember that what one knows more than another person does not make one intellectually superior than the other. From the masses of people, there is a sage from amongst them, whose knowledge reveals a philosophical truth.

Intellect is at the centre of our thoughts, as is consciousness. The knowledge that we acquire is meaningless, if we do not put it into practice. We could sit on a throne and learn nothing about life, except that we are surrounded by luxuriance, or we could sit upon a mountain and meditate the boundless possibilities of knowledge that we can only reach through the process of time and the realisation of the Enas. It is not just all about intellectual understanding, but appreciating the truth. Knowledge is the seed for wisdom. We cultivate that seed until we reap what we have sown, with our due diligence and perspicuity. In the end, it is the knowledge that we have in the One that reveals to us the undeniable truth. Without this knowledge, the truth about the One would not be considered universal.

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