Knowledge vs Knowing

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To know about life is not the same as to truly know life, for knowledge and knowing are not the same thing. Knowledge is information, facts that can be written in books, stored in memory, or passed from one person to another. It is external, objective, and transferable.

Knowing, however, is inner, subjective, and unshakably personal. It is a state of awareness, a truth realized through experience, contemplation, and the wisdom that only living can carve into your being.

Many people hunger for knowledge, consuming books, podcasts, and videos with the same urgency that others collect wealth or possessions. Some gather information endlessly, mistaking accumulation for depth. Others are satisfied with just enough knowledge to function in their profession or hobbies. But there are those who long for something greater: not just to know about, but to know within.

Knowledge is academic, intellectual, factual, what others have discovered, studied, or proclaimed. Knowing is immediate, intimate, alive, it cannot be borrowed, only realized. Knowledge rests on belief: accepting what we are told or taught. Knowing begins with doubt: with questioning, inquiry, even a sacred kind of skepticism.

This is why religions, professions, and institutions often ask us to believe first in order to belong. But the great spiritual paths, yoga, Buddhism, mysticism, true spirituality, invite us to question everything, even their own teachings. Doubt is not an enemy of truth; it is the doorway to it.

Knowledge helps us survive, earn a living, gain recognition, secure our place in the world. But knowing helps us live, to touch mystery, to see clearly, to walk with authenticity and integrity. Knowledge can fill the mind, but only knowing can transcend it, expanding the soul. Knowledge is just a possession and therefore impermanent; knowing is a transformation and therefore enduring.

So let this be your call: stop collecting borrowed truths. Stop believing blindly. To move beyond the walls of belief, begin questioning deeply. Doubt with courage. Inquire with sincerity. Test every teaching in the fire of your own experience. Do not accept life secondhand.

Step beyond knowledge into knowing. For only then does wisdom awaken. Only then does integrity shine. Only then does truth become your path. Only then do possibilities open. Only then do you truly live your potential.

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Author: Maurice "Mao" Correa
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