What You Don't Know Can't Hurt You - but What You Do Know Can't Hurt You Either!

There are scads of half truths floating around today which are readily being accepted as whole truths. One of them is found in the first part of this article title.Even half truths are valuable if we hold them up to the light where we can view the rest of them hidden in the shadows. Most of today's popular truisms fall into this category. We will consider one of them, "what you don't know can't hurt you," widely accepted as truth by many, if not most individuals, living in our western hemisphere. By holding this half truth up to the light, we will discover that whereas it is certainly true; it is also only a half truth which provides little value in the way of guidance it purports to give. And when you consider its inferences and implications and accept those as truth, it actually becomes a lie: and the truth of this declaration will become increasingly clear as we move through our examination.

You see, to say that "what you don't know, can't hurt you", you are also saying, via inference and implication, that "what you do know, can hurt you." And this is just flat out, a Big Fat Lie! In truth, in reality, there is nothing which has any power, other than what you may give it, to hurt you.

Personally, I have an issue with the truism under examination, a half truth. When one accepts it as being the whole truth, one necessarily also limits and dis- empowers oneself through its false suggestion that an individual can avoid suffering by avoiding knowledge; as if somehow knowledge could or would harm the individual. It is suggesting that some knowledge is good and some is bad. In truth, knowledge is neither bad nor good, it just is! Each individual then gets to choose how to use knowledge and is free to apply it towards either what s/he calls "bad" or "good" purpose.

In conclusion, you can best serve yourself by not accepting common day truisms, witticisms, dogma, and any teachings for that matter, as being the whole truth. Rather, to best serve yourself, bring everything into the light of the Infinite Wisdom That Exist at and as The Core/Substance/Essence/Source of Who You Truly/Really Are and it is in that state of Consciousness, you will reveal to yourself truth which will empower, thus serve you, rather than dis empower and limit you. You are indeed the very Light you seek outside yourself!