What drives us to question everything we experience, everything we see?
It’s a characteristic trait of the human nature.
The human is not an uniformly organized being. He always asks for more, more than the world offers him voluntarily. He never seems to be satisfied. We simply can't accept the things as they are. Never.
Nature gave us needs and and it’s up to us to satisfy some of these with the help of our achievements and activities. The gifts and offerings are abundant, yet more abundant is our desire, for more.
We seem to be born for dissatisfaction. One form of dissatisfaction is our thirst for knowledge.
A very simple example: Imagine you look at a tree. You have to look at it twice. One time the tree branches will be calm, next time they will be moving. And we’re not satisfied just by watching it, the observation alone is not satisfying. Now you begin to question: Why does the tree do that?
And just like this view at the tree every other view in the nature will create questions, numerous questions. Every appearance entails a task. Every experience becomes a miracle.
We watch an egg become the same animal with a similar look like its mother.
We are asking: What’s the reason for this similarity?
You can watch the growth and development of an animal until perfection. We search for the requirements and conditions for this experience.
We are never satisfied with the things nature reveals in front of us. In front of our senses. We are on a constant search for the explanations of facts.
And the surplus of the things we look for, beyond everything we already know and what we can see, creates 2 different worlds. It basically splits our whole being in two parts.. We experience ourselves as the opposite to the world.
We contrast ourselves (as a an independent being) with the world. The univers appears in 2 opposites: Me and the world.
Somehow we feel disconnected but we never really feel completely separated from the world and we experience the desire to bridge this opposition.
And the whole striving of humanity is to to bridge this opposition. We’re on a constant search for the oneness between us and the world.
Religion, art and science follow the same pattern to ‚solve’ this problem.
The religious believer searches in the revelations to find answers for the mystery of this world because he’s not satisfied with the things ‚as they are’.
The artist tries to merge his ideas - his creativity – into the world because he’s simply not satisfied with all that is offered. He materializes himself.
And the thinker (scientist) searches for the laws of the phenomenas and appearances and tries to penetrate everything he sees with his thoughts.
Our life seems to be a striving to reconcile and harmonize the opposites again: Me and the world. Our consciousness is responsible for the (mental) separation and it is our consciouness itself which enables us to reach oneness again.
Great article with an open heart and an open mind, it does reverberate. Thank you and namaste :)
Yes indeed, human as we are we tend to be insatiable, we are not satisfied of what we have, and we can't believed things if we don't see things, however , for me to feel God is to believed God that he is always at our side, all we have to do is to accept him and always call for him whatever we do, and whatever we've been through. God is Awesome, God is enough !!! Amen
Unfortunately, you write about the best and less part of mankind. It seems that only 1-2/10 people eager to learn and explore the world. Others are content with the minimum for existence, not trying to broaden their horizons.
imo this is a symptom of the consumer based economy. It's very easy to get caught up in entertainment or gossip rather than spending time constructively, especially when the herd mentality of an entire country is stampeding in that direction. The good side of this, everyone eventually tires of being 'entertained' or focusing on other people. The more content like this article get seen the quicker people lose interest in trivial matters...
Good read, thank you!
imo the big lie western culture is living through is believing a meaningful life and happiness can be bought or obtained through something external to ones Self. This lie is very quickly coming unraveled though. The next several decades will be fascinating to experience as this process of humanity maturing gains momentum.
Excellent observations! I think exploring is in our nature. We used to be able to explore undocumented lands. Now we are left exploring undocumented ideas. Keep up the exploring!
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