The Ivory Tower and the pursuit of knowledge

[reedfish]

...I guess that trying to understand and intellectual pursuit are fine, as long as it's mostly for curiosity and to grasp concepts better while "working on the field", so to speak. My feeling is that intellectual pursuit with the objective of "understanding everything" or "getting to the finish line" will just never end and will ultimately be pointless if it's not paired with concrete actions...

That action is to increase ones awareness of love and unity.

"intellectual pursuit" is contemplation and an ongoing effort to gain new and deeper insights on experience you have already gathered. This is good and valuable work just as valuable as the life experiences that fuel the desire to pursue intellectual understanding. For what is "intellectual understanding" but UNDERSTANDING!!! "Understanding" is the fruit of intellectual pursuit that becomes permanently imprinted on the spirit as a KNOWING. This is a quantitative and qualitative increase in the wisdom of the entity and is as valuable and viable as any other "experience" or "action". Contemplation is a form of meditation that is just one of many forms that "meditation" can take for an entity. The form of meditation chosen results from numerous inputs, and will change as needs, longings and insights change. YOU are the sole judge of the rightness and fitness of the meditative path you travel. Follow your inner compass and you will follow the path you were meant to travel.