~ Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You
During my early childhood I discovered a Bush radio set in my family home living room (a 1940s design) that mesmerised me into turning the tuning dial transporting me to broadcasts from Prague, Paris, Rome, Athens, or Moscow among many other cities dotted across the globe. Turning the dial was effortless, whilst listening obliged me to remain patient as I attempted to interpret (naively so) the foreign languages flowing out of the radio's speakers. At five years of age my imagination was limitless encouraging me to examine all that life was inviting me to discover and understand.
Like a sheet of blotting paper I was absorbing as much as I could through my every day experiences learning that the more I learnt, the more I wanted to learn there being so much worth exploring lying just over the distant horizon, where the sun set every day beguiling me with thoughts of discovering and understanding all that appeared to be out of sight and beyond my reach.
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein
Through our life time's journey of self discovery we can learn, and understand through experience that all that is life affirming, and life enhancing resides within our very person inspiring us to let Him shepherd us through the ebbs, and flows of our life's passage.
Later, he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, and he gave them this reply: “The kingdom of God never comes by watching for it. Men cannot say, ‘Look, here it is’, or ‘there it is’, for the kingdom of God is inside you.” ~ Luke 17:21
Simple faith is never about rejecting human kind's eternal search for self improvement, inspired by our interior life providing us with all that we will ever need to learn, that we have much to learn.
Wise sages over the centuries teach us that the greatest obstacle to discovery, and understanding is not ignorance, rather the illusion of believing that we are smarter than we really are.
When asking questions we acknowledge that we don't know it all, and that given time, we learn that we know precious little; encouraging us to ask more questions.........
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” ― Albert Einstein
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