not knowing

Stepping into a new month

The idea that we should or even can know ourselves is a tyranny.

It assumes that clarity is always preferable to mystery, that explanation is always better than wonder.

But what if not knowing is the most honest relationship we can have with ourselves?

Adam Phillips,  British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and essayist, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

2 thoughts on “not knowing

  1. In addition to being honest with ourselves, “not knowing” is a humble spirit that allows us to continue discovering the wonder we’ve inherited. There is no end to such understanding through our entire life. Thanks Karl for sharing.

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