WHAT IS WISDOM?

True wisdom is marked by a willingness to live within the experience of our questions about Life – it is a desire to seek a path of insight and understanding and knowledge. Formed within our experience of living and our intuitive insight, wisdom is the human capacity for deeper and deeper perceptions of reality.

An innate capacity we must choose to develop, wisdom requires the discriminating use of any acquired information which could come with education, specialized training, scholarly knowledge. Wisdom should not be confused with the results of having collected a lot of facts and information. Wisdom expects us to examine and sift through the concepts and judgments we have accumulated, discarding what is useless, in order to reach the heart of what is real in our life.

“Who am I?” we might ask. “Why am I alive? How am I supposed to live?” Discomfort with the mystery of our unknown self, allowed expression, flows into nagging questions.

These kinds of questions mark the essential crossroads in our spiritual development, for they point us in the direction of our personal responsibility, toward deeper knowledge of our true purpose.

Wisdom is marked by a desire to search for meaning, to look beneath the surface of what seems to be — searching for something which exists in existence. Wisdom is a gift of Life to be treasured.