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What is Wisdom?

August 16, 2006 10:35 AM EDT (Updated: August 17, 2006 11:24 PM EDT)

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I beleive that individuals , societies, cultures, civilizations, can be judged by their willingness to act wisely.

Which brings us to ask , what is wisdom?

Wisdom is the desire and the willingness to live in harmony with oneself, one's neighbors and one's environment.

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Wisdom is life experience in word form. = Senobia T.

wisdom is something that is acquired through loving. = Michael Anthony Fowler

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Senobia T. Aug 16, 2006, 11:20am EDT

Wisdom is life experience in word form.

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Michael Anthony Fowler, M.T.S. Aug 16, 2006, 12:49pm EDT

I tend to believe that wisdom (or "reason") is something that is acquired through loving. I recently wrote a piece on this very idea--give it a read if you are so inclined.

(This article, by the way, was a very pleasant and thoughtful contribution.)

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Gary Jaron Aug 16, 2006, 3:35pm EDT

Thanks for your comments.

Michael Fowler - I will try and find your article.

I think that 'reason' is not necessarily directly related to Wisdom.

Reason can be the source for scientific break throughs - such as those behind the creation of nuclear power and nuclear weapons - I'm not sure if we could get a consensus of agreement that those two were wise choices.

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libramoon C. Aug 21, 2006, 5:15pm EDT

Wisdom is the lessons learned from the stories life tells us.

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Gary Jaron Aug 26, 2006, 2:15pm EDT

True Libramoon - wisdom comes from life lessons, but what is the nature of those lessons. what is the defining concept behind wisdom?

The answer to that question I am suggesting is Harmony.

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Jerry Kays Aug 27, 2006, 8:08pm EDT

Harmony is the trinity of opposites equalized by spirit (+=-).

From that knowing flows all wisdom. Anything less is mere knowledge which has a 50/50 chance of being false.

Therefore, knowledge is objective as applicable to the exoteric realm of duality. (+/-).

Wisdom is subjective as applicable to the esoteric realm of spirituality, yet expressible in any realm as ... (+=-)

(+=-)=:-)
(+/-)=:-( BOOK

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