For your talent to fight above its weight, it needs to bulk up on knowledge.*
Robert McKee

in indigenous ways of knowing, we understand a thing only when we understand it with four aspects of our being: mind, body, emotion, and spirit**
Robin Wall Kimmerer

Knowing takes a life time,
It demands our soul.

Some don’t want to know, not really –
They’re happy with what they already know;
Others do want to know, but only with their minds,
Treating it as a commodity and tool,
Believing they can control and use knowledge,
But never understanding its true value;
Still others allow knowledge into their heart – allowing themselves to
imagine and dream,
But they find that even new knowledge fades away
too quickly, and
nothing changes;
There are some, though, who begin to
experiment and explore with what they are knowing,
Discovering that as they encourage it to grow in their own
and others experiences,
It grows and grows,
And is as vast as
the universe itself.

Knowing takes a life time,
It demands our soul.

*Robert McKee’s Character;
**Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass.