Sunday, May 25, 2008

I want to know everything

This was a line in a recent movie. I won't tell you which movie in case you haven't seen it yet and intend to. However, in real life wanting to know everything is not necessarily a good thing(unless) you have already developed wise rightmindful compassion for all life in the universe in all time and space. Without developing this kind of compassion first actually beginning to know everything could be a death sentence and not only for you but potentially for everyone you know.

Actually knowing everything a being even a human being could know is about as dangerous as a hydrogen bomb unless that person is wise enough and kind enough to know how to handle that much wisdom and knowledge and what to do with it and even more importantly what not to do with it. In the end life everywhere in the universe depends upon balance more than any other single thing.

So, just like the Peter Principle and how a person moves in a job to a level of incompetence, as a person moves forward with knowledge that person tends to move forward to just shy of a lethal share of knowledge and wisdom. People who exceed that just aren't around anymore.

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