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We Can Never Know Spiritual Truth — So Why Talk About It?

[Updated September 5, 2022] The most important concepts in spirituality are impossible to fully grasp — but that doesn't stop us from trying.

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“No thought is consistent with realization.”
— Sri Ramana Maharshi

I have concluded that the most essential and foundational concepts in spirituality are impossible to know or understand. It seems the more we talk about them, the more confusion arises and the less we know. 😕

Peter Brown suggests that this happens because the universe is infinite. The deeper we look into any things, the more we open to their infinity. And that is true for everything in existence, not just spirituality.

But that does not stop our human minds from attempting to know and understand things. We create spiritual stories for several reasons, including:

1. Spirituality is entertaining. 😛 We like to hear ourselves talk (and think), and because there are no universal answers, we can talk endlessly about spirituality. Whether religion, philosophy…