The Missing Piece

We are searching for our place in the world. Wanting to live within an order we constructed order systems. These order systems are thought models that do not reflect our reality, they are merely our attempts to understand the world and get a picture of it. 

This picture is never complete. There is always something missing: The missing link of the theory of evolution, the proof of the existence of the Higgs elementary particles in physics, the proof of God or the proof of the non-existence of God, the answer to the question 'What happens after we die?'

The search for the missing piece keeps our mind in motion. The more we know, the better we know what we don‘t know. Every new experience, every surprising realization, every measuring result can question the seemingly perfect order.  And we must go back to work and construct a new system of order. Even though we know that this is unlikely to be final. Only a closed and dogmatic system wants to fixate our image of the world.

It wants to shut down our thinking and searching movements like the Inquisition did in the Middle Ages when it burned Giordano Bruno. Faithful Muslims who knot a carpet, deliberately include a small flaw in their work. It is a gesture of humility. After all, the greatest hubris for man consists of challenging the gods or equating himself with them. We can learn from this. In Egyptian mythology, there is the idea that the missing piece belongs to the whole. The gap, the void is part of the system, not its refutation. We have to accept it and still keep on searching.