Albert Einstein, who knew many things was directed in his living to the uncertainty of truth not because truth is always changing but because our capacity to receive truth is ever expanding. Like the universe an expanding sense of truth is more natural while a declaration of certain truth is restrictive and confining. In the world of science and natural laws there is room for containment of the universe that is neither restrictive or constrictive and allows for the ever expanding quality of true knowing to be contained within the structure of that universe.
Like the uterus is containing of life but ever expanding to allow for life, so the universe is a container of life and yet allowing for an ever expanding experience of that life.
Knowledge is like that. If I speak with certainty that is confining and restrictive it is knowledge limited by that very certainty. If I know there are no certainties then I am open to new understandings.
The celebrated knowledge of Einstein was achieved because he embraced this polarity of certainty and uncertainty in a parallel process for propelling growth, increasing knowledge, and sustaining community.
"Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and though shalt have knowledge". - Albert Einstein
"The truth I believe to be true may not be as true as I think" is my personal translation of Albert's quote. It allows me to be open to knew insight while embracing the quality of truth. Openness is the key to knowing and to seeing all scripture from this perspective of truth rather than form a preconceived perspective of truth.
So is there any certainty.
For me, that God is love, lives in peace, has no agenda except to be loving, and is resourcefully creative
are certain truths. How they are experienced is wide open and diverse. Certainty of truth allows for diversity of truth.
This is the truth that sets us free to be loving toward all as God is loving toward all.
This is truth.
About Me
- Don Paine
- I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.
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