More often than not, we find ourselves in situations where we don’t know. That’s a given … Acknowledging it is a sign of confidence and awareness.*
Seth Godin

First, pay close, foolish, even absurd attention to things. Then allow their structure, form, and nature to set the limits for the experiences you derive from them. By refusing to ask what could be different, and instead allowing what is present to guide us, we create new space.**
Ian Bogost

To not know is to know more,
Both about oneself and about the situation;
Now we can find out more,
And we may grow in the process –
Instead of trying to fit this thing, this person, this circumstance
into our present understanding,
We allow the unknown to be our teacher, creating
new spaces and possibilities.

The accusation is that this will take too long, and
we continue to hurry three steps forward and hobble two steps back,
Or worse,
But not knowing is a skill to develop, and
the more we use our ability, the
faster it will be, and
the more alive and human we shall be:
Only because
we do not know everything and
because we cannot control the future is it possible
to live and be human.^

It doesn’t matter whether we consider ourselves “secular” or “religious”: in some way we’re all reaching for the heavens.^^

*Seth Godin’s blog: “I don’t know”;
**Ian Bogost’s Play Anything;
^Iona Heath, from Bill Sharpe’s Three Horizons;
^^Susan Cain’s Bittersweet.