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We live as if we have the answers - Florence Shay
Mindful Mom is proud to have Florence Shay (Jeeps’ mom) guest blogging for us today. Florence has a wonderful blog about daily life selling rare books to discerning book lovers. Florence knows about what she doesn’t know and she learned it the hard way.
I didn’t know I didn’t know it until long past when it would have been useful to know it. How easy, how comfortable it would be to immediately recognize that you don’t know it. You can pause, consider, and try to Find Out. No, we live as if we have the answers. Only now in my senior years can I look back and say, “Yikes! It seemed so right, and it was so wrong.” I’m positive I know it all now. Learned from living through it.
The danger of being a heartbeat away & not knowing what you don’t know - Seth Greenland
What makes Sarah Palin so dangerous is that, despite her right wing, Christianist positions, she reminds me of Ralph Kramden, Jackie Gleason’s eminently likeable character from The Honeymooners. Like Ralph, Palin’s level of knowledge exists in inverse proportion to her level of confidence. This is a classic comic archetype with roots that go back thousands of years (There ya go again, lookin’ at the past!). They both say the most idiotic things, and you just want to pinch their cheeks. Sarah Palin believes a girl who is impregnated by her father should be forced to have the baby. And she’s so darn cute when she’s sayin’ it! It’s totalitarianism with a wink and a shimmy.
Don’t Know Mind and Introspection - Susan Kaiser Greenland
Don’t know mind was a favorite phrase of Korean Zen master Seung Sahn and I bet it’s the perspective that the last question of this week’s presidential debate was intended to point the candidates toward. It refers to a state of mind that is open and receptive; one of non-reactive, non-conceptual awareness. It’s not empty, but a lens through which we experience life directly and clearheadedly.
The difference between being uninformed and being misinformed
A post in AlterNet on being attached to your views and changing other people’s minds…
A long time ago, Mark Twain told us: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
Entwined in Twain’s train of thought, is an implicit — and important — distinction: the difference between being uninformed and being misinformed.
What I Don’t Know and How I Will Learn It — Lori Mozilo
What I’m left with is: I know that what I don’t know, is a lot (to paraphrase a line from “Moonstruck”). I’d like to be OK with that. I guess that means, what I don’t know is how to be fine with how much I don’t know.
All that we don’t know - - Seth Greenland and Susan Kaiser Greenland
8:57pmSusan
Can you believe the last question of the debate was “What Don’t You Know and How Will You Learn It?” If that’s not a question for mindfulmom I don’t know what is.
8:58pmSeth
I thought it was a great question. I like that Obama mentioned that his wife can be counted on to tell him what he doesn’t know. He certainly locked up the married person vote with that response.