a quote comes to mind that Alan Watts cites often: "A fool who persist in his folly will become wise."
Wisdom seems to also stem from having glanced an interconnection of seemingly separate things and people (or aspects of the totality). From an experiential grasping of the unity of all things comes a deep appreciation for all its various manifestations, forms and ways. I have found that seemingly "simple" people can be way wiser than many studied people I have met who have university degrees. Simply because many simple people are more connected to their faith, to their own awareness and their immediate surroundings, where as many studied people have learned by heart a way of interpreting everything in a way that someone else has taught them.
Wisdom really is priceless. A great read as always, thanks!
Yes, that's something I've thought about a couple of times, that in order to have wisdom, it's kind of necessary that you do some folly things first. Saint Augustine had a paradox about wisdom in which he wondered, how is it possible for someone to go from foolishness to wisdom? If he does foolish things hoping to become wise, then, or those foolish things will not make him wise, because they are foolish, and if they make him wise, then what he does is not foolish, and therefore, he is not foolish. I am paraphrasing.
What I have come to learn is that there is no one who is completely wise and no one who is completely foolish. They all do wise things sometimes, and foolish things other times. We are usually somewhere between the two. Even the wisest people, I think, do foolish things from time to time. And even the foolish person do things that can be wise or smart at times.
Agree.
I have also reached the same conclusion, and I tend to think that there are many forms of ignorance, knowing too much is also one of them.
And thanks to you! Cheers.
as wise as i sometimes feel, i just as much feel like the biggest fool at other times. hehe. long road to wisdom
Me too... haha.
See ya.