WISDOM OF LIFE

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol

Wisdom or sapience is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight, especially in a mature or utilitarian manner.

Wisdom implies combination of knowledge and thoughts around predetermined principles. Wisdom includes both rational (scientific) intellectual practices and mental processes. In that case, our vision and related strategies explain meaning of our lives and how we could spend such life. Human beings are trying to make sense the world around them with limited knowledge, struggle to create a synergy between the mind and character and to balance both sides wellbeing and truths

Wikipedia describes Wisdom as “a deep understanding [ …] resulting in the ability to apply perceptions, judgments and actions in keeping with this understanding. It often requires control of one’s emotional reactions so that universal principles, reason and knowledge prevail to determine one’s actions. Wisdom is also the comprehension of what is true or right coupled with optimum judgment as to action. “

Throughout our lives, we are mostly worried about things that won’t happen anyway. We are afraid of failure when the regret about not having tried can be by far more painful than failure.

The most common regrets of the dying:

§  I wish I hadn’t spent so much time working

§  I wish I had stayed in contact with my friends/family

§  I wish I had spent more time with my children

§  I wish I hadn’t tried to please everyone

§  I wish I’d had the courage to express what I was feeling

Connecting with yourself is worthwhile

People externalize because they have no trust in themselves. Instead of taking responsibility by acting they wait for someone else to do it for them. It is the underlying foundation of many people’s lives.

Develop a healthy trust in yourself and take responsibility for your life, if you do not want to make your whole life dependent on others. Connect with the inner wisdom that is within you, instead of waiting for others to impose their “truths” upon you. People seek for answers to their inexplicable questions outside of themselves when they can find all the answers within themselves and might already know the answers to some of these questions. Get to know who you really are and practice the skill of listening to your intuition, or as many term it: learn to listen to your heart.

Why is Wisdom important for you?

Because it will harmonize your life. It will establish the priorities of your life and bring you back into right relationship with yourself and with everyone around you. Consider these words. Consider how great this gift is and how essential it is for your well-being, your advancement and your contribution in life.

You always have a choice.  Between stimulus and response is a gap and in that gap is the ability to choose how you respond to any given situation. It’s your attitude toward your existence that makes all the difference.

Wisdom is a Blessing

Happy is the man who finds wisdom.

Hard times don't hurt is we know how to transform them to our benefit. Rather than being meaningless or evil we can transform them into opportunities to develop special inner qualities. By doing so we become more whole, healthy, and happy.

MAY THE GOD OF WISDOM and infinite love look down on you always from heaven above.

May God send you good fortune, contentment and peace, and May all your blessings forever increase.