Perhaps Even That One Knows Not
Whence this creation came, whether one shaped it or did not — the one who watches it from the highest heaven surely knows. Or perhaps even that one knows not.
Can I bear that there may be no final answer, and still go on living?
📝Reflection
Humanity's oldest agnosticism lives in this one line — 'perhaps even that one knows not.' Three thousand years ago the poet refuses to force an answer even from the being seated in the highest place. This final hesitation is, to me, a deep comfort. There are things in the world we finally cannot know, and I need not insist that I know them. The strength to bear the absence of an answer is itself a wisdom. To live today faithfully even without certainty — that is enough.
🌱Apply It Today
If an unanswerable question weighs on you, do not try to solve it today — grant yourself permission: 'It is all right not to know.'
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
