2007-10-21 20:47:37 · 28 answers · asked by Diane 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Knowledge is nothing without the wisdom to enact it to the benefit of all.
2007-10-22 00:17:08 · answer #1 · answered by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if meditation is spiritual, but the way the writers describe what will happen over time if you practice the way they prescribe is powerful knowledge, but only if the end result they say is actually possible.
Robert Jordan once described a phenomena that I wondered about and discarded fairly quickly as a trick of the eye/mind. It helped the story, however, because a device like this can pull your readers into a magical world. He described wet stones beside a fireplace and said that when the character saw them out of his peripheral vision, he saw faces writhing in agony, but dead on, wet stone.
When I was a child I would see things move out of the corner of my eyes, and a couple times I looked and they were really there. Shadows that took the form of people who seemed to be coming closer; shoes that walked by themselves...
Knowing when, where, and why these things occur would be empowering only if they could be called upon, predicted, or communicated with in such a way as to change the path of yourself or others.
Now that I'm older, such a cynic, I rarely entertain any of wild wild notions and if I investigate them I find nothing. I don't know how I ended up being such a killjoy, but if anybody knows any way of opening oneself up to spiritual possibilities I'm game!
2007-10-21 22:14:18 · answer #2 · answered by willmin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
infinite knowledge would make one omniscient.
infinite power would make one omnipotent.
In a social sense, I would agree that the more you know, the more you can accomplish, but this is a relationship, not an identity.
In a spiritual or metaphysical sense, I see a distinction... without the distinction, answering "Is God strong enough to do something he doesn't know he's doing" presents a challenge.
Power is work over time. Knowledge is a collection of facts. Wisdom is knowledge of good versus evil.
DF.
2007-10-21 20:57:54 · answer #3 · answered by David F 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes! Only knowledgeable people has the capability to give up their knowledge in order to submit their will to the ONE they believed in. This is really a great power.
2007-10-21 20:55:55 · answer #4 · answered by Dencel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use yoga to help gather my scattered energies and tap into my inner knowing. Yoga Journal is an excellent resource for information on this - but in a nutshell I have heard that, for example, inverted poses help you to see a different perspective, seated poses and be grounding, etc. Inverted poses rush blood to the head and throat - activating the heart chakra, the thyroid and the metabolism - while the extra blood in the head seems to help jump start the brain. Surely it's easy to see that balancing poses help balance the body, but they also help to balance the mind, life and day - if only because your mind is single mindedly focused for a time on balance, and the physical balance backs-up and reaffirms the mental intention. I think in many instances, physical meditation can be very helpful too - my favorite is doing the dishes. It seems that while the body is occupied, the mind is allowed a chance to sort through it's thoughts unfettered by having to be ready for a new thing - the repetive motion allows the body to go on auto pilot so the mind can do it's thing. It can feel trancy - but not until you come out of it, sort of. Peace!
2016-05-24 03:15:28 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To an extent. You should explore, question, understand what you are seeking. But not too much. If you over think it, your thinking mind gets in the way of what you are after. Thinking is not doing, if that makes any sense. You will have too many ideas of what you are after instead of just living in the now and experiencing it.
It's difficult to put into words what I'm thinking, so I'll leave it at this: an empty mind can better accept what is real than one filled with expectations of how things "should" be.
2007-10-22 02:24:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I strongly believe that in spirituality, the divine knowledge is surely the power to transform the seeker, provided it is experienced by ones intuition or communicated by one who has already achieved such knowledge (- no bookish knowledge will help much.). This is requires one's sensitivity too.
2007-10-22 03:05:17 · answer #7 · answered by TARBA 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is absolutely essential.Only by knowledge are we able to understand the difference between reality and unreality.Spiritual knowledge purifys our mind,intellect and the soul.World knowledge is of scientific progress.We need both types of knowledge...
2007-10-21 21:23:53 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is powerful... it can help you live your life here on earth, but it cannot bring you ultimate fufillment and happiness because you were created for an intimate relationship with your maker.
That type of relationship isn't about knowledge, but about love, sincerity & truth.
2007-10-21 20:51:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, most definitely.
God said (Somewhere in OT): "My people perish for lack of knowledge".
Proves that God is not against the gaining of knowledge like some wrongfully assume.
Knowledge can, however, "puff up" as the Bible also says and is sometimes very evident on this forum.
2007-10-21 21:10:32 · answer #10 · answered by Prof Fruitcake 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋