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Lately my mind had been blocked, all I could do was think and the only thing I couldn't do was think. I would try to think of something new something better. Reaching farther and farther. And through my search and the words of a friend I realized that I had lost something rather important, I had left the heart out of it. The purpose for thinking and learning, the reason one ought to seek knowledge. Knowledge is not a means to itself, but a tool to be used in matters of the heart. When one begins to seek knowledge for knowledge sake, he loses the life that moves it.


Scripture reminds us that gifts without love is nothing, and i am inclined to agree with it. C.S. Lewis once said that friendship had no survival value but gave value to survival and I am inclined to agree with him. The heart gives knowledge its value, and without it knowledge is nothing. Why ought I seek out knowledge? Because by the matters of my heart... This of course is a simple form of knowledge it is something I know and have gained, it also by its very nature has given that knowledge a reason for being.


We are not a group of mindless heartless automatons onto this planet, but those with both mind and heart, created in Gods very image. One loses part of it by tossing away his intellect, and when we toss away the heart we toss away the whole. This is why we are reminded that "knowledge without the heart is nothing." Both intellect and heart are lost with the heart. They work in unison like the sun and its rays work together in their nature. If the rays are gone the sun is without ability, without the sun there are no rays. We need knowledge to use our heart, and we need our heart to even have our knowledge.


Let us not forget though that the sun is still there and has of some means of letting its existence be known, even without its rays, though it is by its rays that its existence is made known to us all the better. The sun(heart) is the central aspect, where nothing is of any worth without, whereas the rays(the intellect) is the caused aspect, where the sun is made known to us without effort. It is not good to be without the other, but it is worse to be without the first because then there is nothing.