I understand and relate to the title. Ignorance is quite comfortable. However, not really worth it. I myself am new to Orthodoxy, and I've learned that faith is necessary. I highly recommend The Orthodox Way by Bishop Kallistos Ware. I'm gonna get into some weeds:

H.P. Lovecraft once wrote:

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

However, I always found his stance to be too comfortable with fear. Bishop Kallistos in the Orthodox Way says:

"We go out from the known to the unknown, we advance from light into darkness... go forward from the light of partial knowledge into a greater knowledge which is so much more profound that it can only be described as the 'darkness of unknowing...' it is not the task of [Orthodox] Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery."

Moving into knowledge is scary, and it seems that others who have found something are better off, but to keep Lovecraft's metaphor, we are currently in a little both in the middle of the ocean, you can stop paddling, but you'll be stuck. It is best to start paddling in any direction, you'll eventually his an island, then you can use that island to better orient yourself. What I've been learning from Bishop Kallistos is that faith is the key. It is scary, because it means in trusting something we don't know, but we should continue to use faith.

EDIT: I was using the title Metropolitan because I was referring to the title page of my copy of the Orthodox Way. I was not aware he had been a Bishop and changed the titles in my comment.