Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered the body, and whoever has discovered the body, of that one the world is not worthy." (80 Thomas)

It is easy to be distracted by the world's beauties and troubles and never know the world.

To know the world - engage and understand the world - is worth a great deal.

As we know the world, we will also better understand the nature of our own creation.

In knowing the world, though, there is always separation: subject and object.

In full self-knowledge there is reconciliation and wholeness. In this wholeness we may come to know God.

For the self reconciled with God even the entire world seems somehow small.

Above is Thomas encountering the body of the risen Jesus.