{"id":1325,"date":"2020-12-04T18:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T12:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2020-12-04T18:32:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T13:02:16","slug":"why-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/why-spirituality\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Spirituality?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday as I spoke to someone, we marveled at the paradox in the world. That the more one learns, the humbler one becomes, the more aware one becomes of how little one knows &#8211; so one tends to be more quiet about it. The beginners on the other hand, those with very little knowledge, think they know everything, they have the route map and the journey&#8217;s predictable. And they&#8217;re the loudest, more sure of them all. And it is these voices everyone hears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the same with the mind. I had a conversation yesterday with a bright student who is dedicated to the spiritual pathway. Pretty sure it was equally enjoyable for both of us. The right questions are always more important than the right answers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"578\" data-attachment-id=\"1326\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/why-spirituality\/image-12\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-12.png?fit=592%2C578&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"592,578\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-12\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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That the more one learns, the humbler one becomes, the more aware one becomes of how little one knows &#8211; so one tends to be more quiet about it. The beginners on the other hand, those with very little knowledge, think they know everything, they have the route map and the journey&#8217;s predictable. And they&#8217;re the loudest, more sure of them all. And it is these&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/why-spirituality\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5l0ch-ln","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}