Yesterday I was reading an article about the two kinds of knowledge that we can acquire: “Head knowledge” and “Heart Knowledge”.

Anyone can read a book from cover to cover. Anyone can memorize all that is written in a book. That is “Head knowledge”.

However, to appreciate and apply what is learned require “Heart knowledge”. If this part is missing, all that is read and understood remain just facts in the head, without power to generate new actions or changes.

An example:

While reading the Bible is important in any Christian spiritual discipline, being “knowledgeable” about the Bible alone  does not make anyone a better Christian. It is when we acquire the “heart” knowledge and seek personal encounter with God that “knowing” becomes complete.

Similarly, learning any fact or subject will also require both “head” and “heart” knowledge, otherwise there can be no impact whatsoever. Two persons can graduate from the same course, but have very different results. One will excel while the other may remain more or less as he was before he went for the course. In other words, the “heart” knowledge is also the PASSION.

No passion, no action. No action, no impact.