Human Growth as a Path Toward Omniscience and Omnipotence

 

Human beings are finite.

We possess bodies, live within time, and are not complete.

 

And yet we do not stop.

We continue trying to deepen our understanding and to move the world.

 

Growth is not simply becoming kinder.
Nor is it merely achieving social success.

 

Growth means becoming able to understand the world more accurately,
and becoming able to reflect that understanding in reality.

 

Human growth has two directions.

 

One is growth directed inward.

It is the process of understanding one’s own emotions and patterns of thought,
and gradually becoming able to read the structure of the world with greater precision.

 

This is the expansion of knowledge.

 

The other is growth directed outward.

It is the ability to choose, act, and produce concrete change in reality based on what has been understood.

 

This is the expansion of capacity.

 

The limit of inner growth points toward omniscience.

This does not mean knowing everything.

It means continuously grasping the relationship between oneself and the world with increasing accuracy.

 

The limit of outer growth points toward omnipotence.

This does not mean being able to do anything.

It means being able to apply one’s understanding of structure to reality in the most effective way possible.

 

Human beings do not become gods.

Yet human growth always extends in a godlike direction.

 

The gap between knowledge and capacity becomes smaller.

The distance between understanding and action gradually decreases.

 

The word that symbolizes this direction toward infinity is omniscience and omnipotence.

 

It is not a destination.

But it is the vector toward which human beings move.

 

Human maturity is the movement of continuously expanding both knowledge and capacity.