Is life worth living without a goal?Do we ever really know where our lives are leading or what we are doing? Our culture places an enormous premium on the accumulation of knowledge and the development of strategies to achieve our personal ends -- including our spiritual goals as well as our career ones. And there are many good reasons why it is right to do so. Scientific knowledge, self-knowledge, specialized knowledge: all of these can deepen our understanding and relationship to life and to each other, and give us tools with which to be useful not only to ourselves but to the culture at large. Knowledge is enriching, powerful, and often inspiring. Strategizing can be a rational and intelligent use of our time and resources toward a particular end.More... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-housden/knowledge-power_b_874977.html)
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Freedom of not knowing is the ignorance of the highest order.