We are born, we grow, at the pre school years we learn from our family, during school years we learn from our friends and teachers, and later on we learn from people who we think has a parallel vision of the world with ours.

Our mind, due to its nature, has to process and give meaning to the information it receives. No information we have not experienced, can be returned to us a “state of knowing”, i.e. “knowledge”. Experiences do not only consist of our facts, but they also contain meanings of our understanding, and they consist of information and judgments which we, only we, filter. Forasmuch as, “information” and “state of knowing” is not the same thing.

Of course, there are many traps awaiting us this process. When not carefully examined, it becomes impossible to be aware of this difference and falling into the traps became inevitable.

I liken this situation with the situation of the tourists, who go to a weekly trip on a foreign country or city, take pictures of every single place and every thing, visit museums, important places of that city with guides, and when returned to home, speaks like he/she knows everything about this city or country. The have the information of a gorgeous statue that stands in a museum in Prag, may require intellectual capacity and a certain education. However, one well-informed and other not informed at all- two people, standing in front of the same statue, has a same distance to the “state of knowing” this statue.

“State of knowing” is a door open for everyone. If you have “information”, you may feel comfortable while passing through that door. But if you do not have “information”, this does not imply any fact about you not going thru the “door of knowledge”.

Zen masters liken their teachings to the position of “a man pointing his finger towards the moon”. If the man and accordingly his finger stay stabile all the time, it will consequently miss the point it shows. This situation may even result in man, believing its finger is the moon itself.

The “information” moon’s location is just a tool. I am not intending to emphasize that “information” is less useful or unimportant that “state of knowing”. I just suggest that, if all that “information” can be transformed into the “state of knowing” at some point, it would value “information” as never before.

Did you ever thought about where all this “information” and what we learn leads us to???

I recently have read a very nice quote. It says:

“The end of wisdom is freedom, the end of education is character, the end of culture is perfection; the end of all knowledge is Love.”

Especially the last part of the sentence made its place in my mind: “...The End of All Knowledge is Love.”

It was fabulous! Was that where we would lead? If so, can we on earth have any objection to it?

Personally, I would be grateful and even thank for it.

But, don’t we already think LOVE is with us all the time? With us all the time before the road, while the road and after the road , what we search for and will never get tired of searching, seems to us sometimes full and sometimes empty, which we always desire it to exist...

I believe, in the quote the term “knowledge” is used on purpose. These intents to mean not only “having the information” but “being in a state of knowing”. 

I am more interested in the strong change of our understanding between “our vision towards the love we have in hand during the journey” and “our vision towards the love what we have in hand at the end of the journey”, rather than the “kind” of love that is mentioned here.

This difference may only be experienced “state knowing”. With the experiences no words can define.

Like Rumi, who claims that what he did all along his life was no different than those who create pots from mud and water, when faced with the Lover i.e. God, to desire to throw all his art craft to the fire.

Like all you have learned so far and all your titles of information, being a slight detail while experiencing the inspired state of knowing.

Like desiring to oscillate forever, in the place where there are no words or feeling.

Like only “state of knowing” covering all the emotions and senses, and anything else making sense only as much as geometry makes sense to a fish.

Love is in the journey, at the beginning and at the end. Maybe the only point where we came from and where we lead. In the natural state of a baby, knowing its mother effortlessly. When we over sum our experiences we went through in this world that is a beautiful nullity.

No matter how much I think about think, I cannot resist being impressed from the sage from whose words I agree by heart.

Life is an understanding that leads leads from “information” to the “state of knowing”, containing Love at the beginning, in the middle and at the end. And the end of our all knowledge is Love...