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For your interest. Articles will be changed regularly. Heartlight welcomes positive feedback. WISDOM: Wisdom is not granted out of right to those of venerable age. Nor to those who believe they have accumulated great knowledge. Intellect and exalted position does not prove a right to wisdom........ It is automatically given to none of these. Wisdom, in truth, must be learned and earned, and, it comes at a cost. For many the cost is too high. These people are content to sit in their narrow, confining, but very comfortable positions, while allowing others to take the knocks from life. Yet, those who embrace each new situation and challenge with courage, grow and evolve from the awareness of their own pain, fear, love and pleasure. Stretching their bodies and minds with joy; shouting greetings and acceptance of the next, new challenge in their lives. Wisdom does not come easily. It does not call out ‘Here I am, take me!’ You have to open your arms, step forward into unknown territory and embrace that which you fear to begin to know wisdom. It then comes quietly into your beingness. It seeps into your awareness, lifting your compassion and insight, and the recognition of how little you truly know. Wisdom holds a balance. This is the balance of understanding gained from both knowledge and experience. If a person holds only knowledge from outside sources, yet has no experience themself, how can he or she know if systems that work for others, will also work for him or herself? Yet if one has much experience, but has gained no knowledge, and accumulated no understandings from an experience, how can wisdom be resident within? Where is the worth to the one who has experienced, where the value to another who is beginning a similar challenge? And where is the sense of achievement and completion? Environments, ideas, attitudes and knowledge are in every flowing cycles of change within every person and nation on earth. Not so wisdom. Wisdom is constant. Only the experiences and knowledge that create the wisdom changes. The path to wisdom is simple. Be courageous, compassionate, loving and patient. Note well your achievements and your mistakes. Learn from them how to better understand yourself first, then how to utilise your knowledge to understand others. Only then will true wisdom begin gently seeping into your consciousness. Only then will true awareness of oneself and the world we live in begin. Julia
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