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Hi Phoneix, may we leave Stephen Hawkings out of the discussion ?, as I am not a fan of his, though if reading " A brief history of time " was beneficial for you, that is good - lol. Language certain seems to me to have limitations in it's ability to express understanding .... and my own capacity to conceptualise and express what I experience is also limited .... the best I can often come up with, is that we know what we know from our investigation of our experience.
From the link Aloka-D gave us in post #9 - from Ajahn Chah, “The Training of the Heart” in Food for the Heart - this awareness is expressed well without limitation -

" This is the way it is. You detach. You let go. Whenever there is any feeling of clinging, we detach from it, because we know that that very feeling is just as it is. It didn’t come along especially to annoy us. We might think that it did, but in truth it just is that way. If we start to think and consider it further, that, too, is just as it is. If we let go, then form is merely form, sound is merely sound, odour is merely odour, taste is merely taste, touch is merely touch and the heart is merely the heart. It’s similar to oil and water. If you put the two together in a bottle, they won’t mix because of the difference of their nature… "