As we evolve, we handle knowledge in different ways. We tend to move through these stages:
- We are unaware.
- We become aware of facts, data, information.
- We comprehend meaning from the facts.
- We can personally apply the information in our lives.
- We have wisdom - enlightened, we can lovingly apply our knowledge to world affairs.
- We live in truth.
How have you personally experienced a shifting of applying knowledge from one level to the next?
"More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching...."-- Sogyal Rinpoche
"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul."-- Arnold Bennett