Growing Zen

"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man." -Richard Feynman

That is a hearty "amen" to Nephi, and to Elder Andersen in conference on Sunday: "And I said unto him: I know that he [God] loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things." (1 Nephi 11:17)

Another excellent quote from Mr. Feynman, this one from the documentary The Lottery of Birth:

“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions and pass them on. It is our responsibility to leave the men of the future a free hand. In the impetuous youth of humanity, we can make grave errors that can stunt our growth for a long time. This we will do if we say we have the answers now, so young and ignorant; if we suppress all discussion, all criticism, saying, ‘This is it, boys, man is saved!’ and thus doom man for a long time to the chains of authority, confined to the limits of our present imagination. It has been done so many times before.”