Dossier Zelfkennis: Over Weten - Zijn - Begrijpen - 3

Het is zelfs zover dat geen mens zichzelf écht begrijpt…
door Tsenne Kikke - vrijdag 28 april 2023 18:46

Beste Eclecticus,

Over het onderwerp 'Weten - Zijn - Begrijpen' staat er nu op Eclecticus een korte, meest interessante tekst, beginnende met de woorden...

If a man does good for the sake of a reward, he does not understand what he is doing. Again, to the man who was ploughing on the Sabbath Day, it was said that if he understood what he was doing, it was all right. Again, if a man takes it for granted that he is fully conscious and knows what he is saying and doing and can easily change himself if he wishes, he will never understand himself, or, indeed, anybody else.

Now, although we may know a lot, we understand very little. To know and to understand are different things. To begin with, to know is a matter of one centre, but to understand is a matter of at least two centres. The formatory part of the Intellectual Centre can know a great deal. But it does not understand anything. If the Intellectual Centre and the Emotional Centre co-operate, then understanding begins. A person may know how to make a bomb, and do so, and blow up some people. But he has no understanding. How, then, can we get a glimmer of meaning as to what the Work indicates by understanding? Does it mean a seeing together of many things from many points of view and so quite distinct from one-sidedness? Certainly, it must have some such meaning, for is not the whole Work about changing a man or woman from a narrow, one-sided, undeveloped, negative, prejudiced person into a different being through self-study, new knowledge and special kinds of efforts?

Let me take aim in connection with understanding. We have to make aim in the Work. We may think we know our aim. But do we understand our aim? That is quite another matter. It is only a finer inner perception that will help us to understand our aim in the long run.

- Etcetera -

"Vind mensen, die in zichzelf zowel de motivatie als de aangeboren drijfveer hebben om aan hun Innerlijke Zelf te werken, en we zullen hen gidsen."

- DIMschool vzw, de énige gespecialiseerd in Zelfkennis, zijnde: het kennen van het Zelf -
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