【原文】：
“The wisdom of this world is folly with God,” says the Bible. What is the wisdom of this world? The movement of thought, and meaning that is defined exclusively by thought.
Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but it seems very real while you are trapped in it. And yet the universe is an indivisible whole in which all things are interconnected, in which nothing exists in isolation. The deeper interconnectedness of all things and events implies that the mental labels of “good” and “bad” are ultimately illusory. They always imply a limited perspective and so are true only relatively and temporarily.
There are no random events, nor are the events or things that exist by and for themselves, in isolation. The atoms that makeup your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.
If you wanted to trace back the cause of any event, you would have to go back all the way to the beginning of creation. The cosmos is not chaotic. The very word cosmos means order. But this is not an order the human mind can ever comprehend, although it can sometimes glimpse it.
【译文】：
圣经有言：“人世的智慧，在神看来是愚拙”①。人世的智慧又是什么呢？是思想的演变以及由思想判定的价值观。
思考通常将情境或者事件孤立起来并定义其是好坏，就好象这些事情原本就是互相独立的。若对思考过度依赖，现实在人们眼中就会断裂破碎。尽管这断裂只是幻象，但若深陷其中便无法察觉，你会觉得它相当真实。然而，宇宙是一个不可分割的整体，其中所有的事物都是互相关联的，独立的事物并不存在。事物之间的深度关联也意味着主观的“好”与“坏”的标签最终也是幻象。这些标签通常来自具有局限性的观点，因而只能在特定时刻相对为真。
事件不是随机发生的，完全孤立的事情也不存在。构成你身体的原子说不定曾经属于天上的星星。最微不足道的事件也有着无穷多的原因，且与宇宙整体以人类无法理解的方式相联系。
要想回溯任何事件的原因，你将不得不回到创世纪。宇宙并非混沌一片。宇宙(cosmos)一词的字面意义就是秩序(order)。这个秩序永远无法被人的心智所了解，然而我们却时常有机会见识它。
【评论】：
这是不可知论么？这是不可知论。
宇宙如此浩瀚，人的心智不可能穷尽宇宙的奥秘。也许人的心智可以，如果人有足够的时间来做这件事。然而，生命有限，而这世界上的可做的事情又那么多。也许，人类可以靠着世代的努力与积累能对宇宙对世界有更为清晰的了解。不过，随着时间增加，这个世界的知识也在增加吧？就看是增加的速度快还是我们发掘的速度快了。
现在我们得花一点儿时间来感谢我们生而为人了。生而为人拥有心智，借由这一能力，我们能了解一部分宇宙的奥秘，人生的真谛。即便不是全部。谁在乎全部。
【注释】：
① 出自哥林多前书。
