What is Wisdom

Wisdom is usually referred to being knowledgeable, sagacious and sensible. People do become wiser with age after gathering a considerable amount of knowledge and experiences but not necessarily more enlightened, thoughtful or discerning.

One of the reasons that many adults, though educated, aren't prudent and don't use their common sense is because they make decisions and judgments based on their negative related emotions and past mental conditioning instead of their intellect. These people have not gained insights from their life experiences.

This is one of the reasons why we heed the words of wisdom only from the few learned men or sages whom we've grown to respect for giving us enlightenment to the many answers that we seek.

Learn from others as well as from your own experiences. If you fail to get the result that you expected, look upon it as feedback and an experiment. Analyze it. Use your creativity and mind storm ideas. Test yourself further. Take more actions or try new things and watch the outcome.

Learn from success. If you can do it once, you can do it again. If people can do things, you can too.

Your good sense, acumen and understanding will improve when you are able to find the solutions and solve your problems. The path to illumination is a long journey. But with enough learning experiences, contemplation and deep thoughts you will see the light.

Pay attention to what's happening. Watch other people's behavior and your own conduct. Observe how you interact and how people treat you. Listen to your language and that of others.

Take notice of your persistent problems. Become aware of your sensations and feelings. Learn to uncover your fears, find out the triggers and how you get inspired.

Develop your interest and curiosity. Learn to evaluate, organize the information that you have gathered and use your common sense to filter and make up your mind.

Gather an enormous amount of information from books if you want to develop good and wise judgments. Observe life and people, study them and get to know as much as you can.

Knowledge provides you with more choices to enable you to make the right decisions. Education helps shape your philosophy and values.

Put time aside for solitude to gain clarification and understanding. In silence, you will find the answers that were not obvious. You attain wisdom through regular period of deep meditation. This is the time when you can reflect on your daily and weekly happenings and use them for your future benefits.

Your soul thinks and understands and that means you have to look inside to find what you are seeking. It beckons you to wake up, learn, understand your emotions and make better decisions.

"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet." - Isadora Duncan

"The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them." - Arnold Bennett

"I might have saved myself much distraction if I had been less shy about asking advice. I did not understand that people rather like to give it and can often think better for others than for themselves." - Charles Horton Cooley

"At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage." - John Andrew Holmes

"Everyone is familiar with the phenomenon of feeling more or less alive on different days. Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of the day do not call forth, but which he might display if these were greater. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake." - William James

"We are always giving things absolutely arbitrary characters. This thing is good, that thing is bad; but badness or goodness, beauty or ugliness are not in things themselves, but in the ways those things relate themselves to us. " - Phillips Brooks

"If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom." - Cyril Connolly

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." - Albert Einstein

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