Eckhart Tolle explains Socrates' claim that he knows nothing as pointing to a state of pure awareness beyond thought. From this no-mind space, true creativity emerges, unlike the conditioned mind that only recycles what it already knows.
Remember what the great philosopher Socrates said? They call me the wisest of all men for the reason that I'm the only one who knows that he knows nothing. Nobody really has truly understood what he meant. People thought he was just pretending not to know. But I'm convinced that he was referring to the state of not knowing Which is also, of course, the state of not thinking but awareness, out of which his whole philosophy emerged. The creative use of mind emerged out of the space of no mind. If you have no access to the space of no mind, then your mind will not be creative in any way. In other words, it's just You can only have to rely on what you have acquired, and you will be moving within the conditioned realm of the mind, whatever the mind has been conditioned by. That's all you have then.
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