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If The Meaning of Life is To Live, Education is Fuel

Ignorance may be bliss, but education is empowerment.

Murray "MJ" Blehart
5 min readFeb 1, 2024
Woman writing on a whiteboard. Education is key to the meaning of live — TO LIVE
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The more we learn, the more we become capable of. The more abilities we develop, the more skills we hone, the more we can do. Learning is how human beings grow, evolve, and change. When you, as an individual, expand your knowledge, we all become more able to change the world for the better.

One of the failings of many of our leaders is their desire to keep us ignorant. It’s a matter of their retention of control to keep us reliant on them to understand certain matters. Rather than empower, they prefer to disempower us by slashing education and maintaining the false control that they think they have. This applies to business leaders, religious leaders, and especially politicians and government leaders.

Coupled with this, we are not taught in any formal way how to recognize and know ourselves. At least, not beneath the surface. We’re hyper-focused on appearance and other elements of the body, often to the exclusion of the rest of what we are. Hence, we neglect to account for mental, emotional, and spiritual health, wellness, and wellbeing in favor of the physical.

However, this is something that we can teach ourselves. Education of this nature is fuel for realizing potential, possibilities…

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Murray "MJ" Blehart
Murray "MJ" Blehart

Written by Murray "MJ" Blehart

I explore mindfulness, positivity, philosophy, & conscious reality creation. I love to help & inspire. Also, I write sci-fi/fantasy. http://mjblehart.com

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