“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
-Socrates
From the start, we make perceptions and lose vision to see truth hidden in the world. If we take prominent figures in history, they all are open-minded people. We think we know, but is it true that we know? People close their vision to see what waits ahead of them. I stop giving my suggestion to my fellow people. I know nothing to give them suggestions. I only know that I know nothing. Despite the fact that I may never reach wisdom, I now know that the only way to get there is to learn.
I don’t have a guru who can teach me the path to my destination, but I made one from history. I made Swami Vivekananda my guru. I learn from their life and their teachings. Maybe one day I made my guru proud. When I see them in photos, I get energy to work hard. When I’m stuck in some situation, I think about what my guru would do if he were in my place. Open minds see the world. We think the world is an uglier place than previous times, but we are only seeing part of it. Sometimes, I feel lost when I see horrible things around me. Then suddenly, I got news of some man who did something out of this world, something that we can still hope for.
I only know nothing. From this large cosmos, we have galaxies; from this large Milky Way galaxy, we have small solar systems; from these solar systems, we have planets the size of atoms compared to the cosmos, and through all this, we know something. This is the stupidest thought that ever existed. We know nothing; that is only our truth. We die knowing nothing. So, keep learning, open your eyes of mind and see the world, and learn from it. You have plenty of things to learn, and your time is very limited. Your competition is not your fellow colleague next to you; you compete with yourself only. Failure is part of our life. Imagine there is a world without failure; then we cannot imagine anything like success. These concepts can never exist in the absence of failure. We value success because we know that we pay a big price during our failure. So, open your mind and learn.
“Study the world carefully. Observe the flights of birds, the flow of water, and the structure of the human body—and question everything. Nature hides her secrets from the complacent but reveals them to the curious. An open mind sees patterns where others see chaos. Let your curiosity be stronger than your certainty.”
-Leonardo da Vinci
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