You don't know that you don't know!

Learning leads to knowledge. The more we learn to see an object from different angles the more we can see this object in totality. When learning is not single sided or dogmatic we will slowly but surely arrive at a point where the true structure is evident.

When you look at the life of many geniuses which have brought understanding into this world like Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Edison or Dr. Demartini you will see that none of them have invented the wheel themselves. They have all learned to stand on the shoulders of giants, have read 1000's of articles, books and concepts, studied many different strategies and theories only to arrive at a clear picture they then could describe to the world. There was no result without effort.

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Thomas Edison

Edison did not invent the light bulb in his dreams. He worked through thousands of tests, learning a new lesson from each failure until the mystery of electricity was revealed.

Here is a famous story that will help clarify this point.

Once there was a group of blind beggars sitting beside the road discussing the qualities of an elephant. All four men were deeply engaged in discussion when another man walked by with an elephant on his way to work. When the man heard the discussion of the blind men, he felt pity and said, "Would you like to come and touch the elephant so you can get an idea of how it looks?" The blind men got very excited and moved forward to touch the elephant. One came to touch the leg, another held the tail, one man felt the stomach and the last held the trunk in his hands. They sat back at the side of the road, and their discussion was even more determined than ever before because each man experienced the elephant differently and had a different image in his mind.

Was one any more correct than the other?

Are we not all like the blind men, discussing the laws of the universe, yet seeing only a small portion of the whole picture? We often think we know so much that we get angry with others who do not share our viewpoint. Not long ago people were actually burned at the stake when they disagreed with the concept that the world was a flat disk and one could fall off the edge.

Only when your inner eye, or so-called third eye, is awakened will you be able to see the perfect order which is inherent in everything. And that is called Wisdom.

You know that you don't know

It is evident that there is a point to learning. It is not important to only find one correct lesson and then know it all. It is the lesson that comes from failure that is also important. The more mistakes we make, the more we arrive to a conclusion which has a much greater scale, then all the theoretical lessons we can learn from books.

Making mistakes should be a subject at school to teach all our children how to learn from them, instead of trying to avoid them. Did you know that many of the greatest inventions came only to surface from making one mistake after the other, until all DO NOT's showed a clear direction towards the solution of the problem.

We make a decision to change something in our life and therefore express our free will. But then we have to bear the conse-quences of our actions as change usually comes with great resistance. If we are successful on the first go, then we have either done our homework, or we were just in the right tune for this change. However, if we make a mistake and the goal is not reached, we should also be happy. We have learned one way which does not work. There might be a few more to go. But in the end we will reach it and have learned a whole lot on the way.

"Never, never, never, never give up." Winston Churchill

You know!

Jupiter is known in the San-skrit language, the sacred language of the Vedas, as guru and represents the teacher and adviser. Ask a person with knowl-edge in a particular area and be sincere with your question. You will get a very detailed and helpful answer. Mix and mingle with those who know, or with those you want to learn from. Jupiter is wise and will allow you to feel like they do. See them as teachers and treat them with a humble respect without putting yourself down.

Wisdom is when you have reached the state of knowing the whole elephant. When you have experienced all the things it is not, and ll the things it is. Then you can talk of wisdom.