“Questions beyond our knowledge we should ignore, since the human mind may be unable to grasp them. What would we gain from understanding every little thing, anyway?” — Epictetus
It’s good to be educated about the world around us and how it works. But happiness doesn’t come from constantly seeking out more useless data and info and news.
Pursuing knowledge is like navigating an ocean: we should learn how to traverse the water’s surface, but diving too deep beneath the waves will only bend us away from living.
You’ll never catalog every drop of water in the sea or wrest control from tempests, so don’t be distracted by the endless mysteries and terrors of the abyss. Instead, focus on the simple, vital task of rowing your boat.
Think about the beautiful relevance of what’s right in front of you: the small instead of the vast, the ordinary instead of the profound, the familiar instead of the exotic.
The most transformative discoveries are hiding in the mundane requirements of everyday life, not in endless information and facts and findings.