Knowledge: enough?

“The mind is a beautiful servant and a lousy master.”

“We have learned to give the intellect so much juice.”

-Ram Dass

We give knowledge so much power in our world.

We chase facts, study patterns, name behaviors. We think if we can just understand, we’ll be above, safer, more powerful.

But understanding isn’t the same as holding.

Information isn’t transformation.

Wisdom isn’t knowledge, isn’t accumulation of information. WISDOM - TRUE WISDOM - requires deep COMPASSION. And deep compassion arises in the center of our heart. It is where the center of creation resides.

The mind knows what the mind knows - it thinks about things. The mind is a brilliant organizer.

It thinks. It calculates. It tries to make sense.

But the heart—the heart doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t need to.

It simply knows through feeling.

Still, we keep asking our intellect to carry burdens it was never designed to hold: To explain grief. To solve love. To map out the ache of being human.

“Even Henry Kissinger, and others among the world’s high-elite intellectuals, couldn’t ultimately solve the world’s problems.” - Ram Dass

Because, as Ram Dass reminded us, these problems aren’t just political or strategic.

They’re human.

And the heart can’t be bypassed—not by power, not by intellect, not even by the sharpest minds on the planet.

So, the challenge is: how do we find a balance between the intellect and the intuitive heart?

Balance isn’t abandoning thought.

It’s learning how to let the soul speak first,

and the mind follow in reverence.

Let intellect serve.

Let love guide.

That’s where wisdom lives.

What would it look like today to let the heart lead?

Let intellect serve. Let love guide.