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What cannot be known
“What cannot be known hollows the mind. Do not fill it with guesswork.”
It’s a line from the series The Rings of Power (on Amazon). Spoken by the elf Galadriel. I heard it while watching the show and immediately had to write it down.
How often I try to fill the void of the unknowable with questions or assumptions, hoping to feel some sense of satisfaction. Perhaps someday I’ll finally, fully realize the futility of that and stop doing it.
For now, I can only let a television show remind me that mystery itself also has value. Allowing the unknowable to remain unknown releases the mind and gives it rest. And I think each of us could use a more rested mind.
Many thanks to the elf for the reminder.
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