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Answer 1

Many African proverbs talk about ‘wisdom’, and people often say that proverbs themselves are small pieces of wisdom. But what is ‘wisdom’, and why is it so important for us to find it for ourselves?

 

“WISDOM IS WEALTH”

This common proverb shows the importance of wisdom in almost every culture. By saying that wisdom is wealth, the proverb tells us that wisdom can help us to gain other, material, wealth (things like money, land and goods). More importantly, it tells us that in the same way that we value money, we should value wisdom – and that it is wisdom not money that makes valuable lives.

This does not explain what exactly wisdom is, though. To understand it better, we need to think about both wisdom and knowledge. These are two complicated things, and wise men have thought about both of them for a long time; it might help you to talk about them with others.

 

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND WEALTH

Knowledge is the information you get from your senses (seeing, hearing, touching, feeling), and includes facts, figures and information. You can know what colour a banana is, or you can know what the laws are in your country and what the rules are about how you should act.

However, knowing is not everything.Wisdom means using your knowledge, in two main ways:

Judging or working out what to do in a particular situation, using the knowledge you have. This could be a decision like choosing what to spend some extra money you just received on – saving it in a bank account or buying some nice new clothes. There is no right or wrong answer, but which do you think would be a wiser choice? Why?

Thinking about how to live your life, what is important to you, what you believe in. Our first proverb, that ‘wisdom is wealth’, suggests that seeking wisdom should be important – that it would be wise to care about thinking wisely.

You will see that in both these areas there is no one correct answer to learn or think of very quickly. Wisdom is not like knowledge, which you can read in a book. What is ‘wise’ is different at different times: sometimes it might be wise to follow others’ advice, but at other times you would be wiser not to listen to them because they do not have your best interests at heart.

We can use wisdom in making decisions or choices. Although in these situations there is no correct answer, when we say a choice or decision is ‘wise’, we mean it is the best or most useful. (although what is ‘best’ is a question that needs lots of space and wisdom to try to answer!).

“WISDOM DOES NOT COME OVERNIGHT”

If we listen to the wisdom of proverbs, we start to think that it is a good idea to seek wisdom. But how do I do that? How can I make better decisions? How can I choose a good life?

This proverb tells us that it takes time to become wiser. This is because we need to practice. And we practice through thinking – thinking about what to do, and when something goes wrong, about why it went wrong and how it could have been avoided. Because wisdom takes time and practice, old people are often thought very wise – but this is only true if they have spent their years trying to think and learn.

“ONE WHO CAUSES OTHERS MISFORTUNE ALSO TEACHES THEM WISDOM”

As well as thinking about your experiences and taking time to think before you act, it is through others that we achieve more wisdom. This proverb reminds us that we can become wiser even through people who are not trying to help us because that teaches us lessons: if someone cheats us at cards, we should start to think better about questions like ‘who should I trust?’.

We also need other people for wisdom because humans develop their thinking best by talking. Think about when you have a problem: do you always talk about it with others? Hearing different opinions and asking questions about why other people hold their different opinions can help you to get better at choosing what is useful or best. You will also start to find out which people are wise, which people you trust, and see them as an example of wisdom. But you should trust your own thinking and seek to grow your own wisd

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Answer 2

Wisdom is understanding how to apply Knowledge in the real world. Wisdom is cultivated by following Knowledge and by developing skills in the world. It is based upon the cultivation of discernment and discretion, two very fundamental aspects of your education. Let us explore what Wisdom is, and then we shall discuss how it can be developed most effectively.

Wisdom deals with the application of the Greater Power which lives within you at this moment and which seeks to express itself through you. Gaining access to this Greater Power and learning of its grace, its intelligence and your intrinsic relationship with it represent the focal point of your education in life, the highest expression of your purpose and the reclamation of your greatest relationships, both with your Creator and with others who live with you here. Learning how to gain access to Knowledge, how to receive Knowledge, how to accept Knowledge, how to interpret Knowledge, how to apply Knowledge and how to become a vehicle for its expression in life requires the cultivation of Wisdom.

Knowledge lives within you at this moment, but your ability to receive it, to relate to it and to express it requires the development of a whole new understanding and approach to life. Here you are not taken away from the world. Here you are not elevated beyond physical life but are brought into the world with a greater purpose and mission. This purpose and mission remain mysterious. You cannot define them although you can give definition to their expression. However, even their expression cannot capture their full meaning and importance for you and for others.

This requires a different kind of education. Learning to deal with the tangible world in a practical way and to open yourself to the mystery of your life, with reverence and humility, represents a new threshold in learning. It is passing through this threshold and the many thresholds beyond it that will generate Wisdom in your life—the ability to know what must be done and the skill to learn how to do it and how to carry it forward effectively.

Wisdom, then, represents the ability to translate Knowledge into the finite world. This is your function—to be a vehicle for creativity and creation. This is the highest expression of your mind and your body—to be vehicles for the Greater Power that lives within you, which represents the essential and immortal aspect of yourself and of everyone who lives here. Wisdom is an experience, an experience of openness and recognition, an experience of being in contact with two realities simultaneously—the reality of your physical life in the world and the reality of your divine life, your spiritual life, which represents your intrinsic relationship with God and with all of God’s messengers.

Becoming an intermediary represents an expression of real purpose in life. However, this requires a very unique kind of skill. It requires a remarkable openness to certain things while distancing yourself from many other things, for you cannot be open to everything at once. There are many things that are competing for your attention, and there are many things that will overwhelm you should you open yourself to them. There are many kinds of relationships available to you and many kinds of involvements with people. Where you place yourself and what you open yourself to is an expression of your development in Wisdom.

Here we must speak of discernment and discretion. Discernment is knowing what something is, as it truly exists at this moment. Discretion is the ability to hold Wisdom within yourself, to hold an awareness within yourself without sharing it with others inappropriately. Discernment is knowing what you are dealing with. Discretion is knowing how to communicate with it. Both of these require the willingness to be instructed, the willingness to learn, and the willingness to revise or unlearn things that have proven to be counter-productive for you. This requires restraint. This also requires that you hold in abeyance many of your needs—the need for recognition, the need for validation, the need to express yourself, the need to be accepted by others, the need to overcome your adversaries, the need to be unique or special and the need to have all of your wishes fulfilled. These needs must be overcome in order for you to have this greater presence of mind and security in life.

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