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Wisdom or Knowledge?

Updated: Jan 28

Wisdom or knowledge? They are not the same thing. Knowledge is the ego thinking with the mind. The ‘facts’ that are generated are not true and are based on seeing the world through the lens of fear. Google has knowledge. Artificial Intelligence has knowledge. But we are more than that. We are spiritual beings having a human experience, not the other way round. Do you realise that you are also on a spiritual journey?


Thinking is power. Knowledge is power. But it’s only a tiny power. It’s close, if not identical to, powerlessness. 


Marcel Proust wrote "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."


Wisdom is the intuitive thoughts that you receive from your Higher Power that inform every decision that you make, and that therefore determine the course of your life. Wisdom is Real Personal Power...


Wisdom or knowledge?


Knowledge is memory, but there is no benefit from living in the past. Thinking allows us to plan. But we don’t control the Universe. There is a spiritual joke which goes like this: “How do you make God laugh?” “Tell him your plans…” 


Thinking is who you think you are: Your false self (the ego). Thinking defines you. But that King Baby creates wreckage and is not the true you. You are not who you think you are.


So the wise choice in any situation is to ask your Self "What would love/my higher Self/God do?" Wisdom is the intuition that you receive when you commune with the Universal Intelligence, for example during meditation and mindfulness. This Universal mind is limitless in its capacity. Albert Einstein wrote "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant." Like the ego, thinking is a great servant, but a terrible master. Thinking leaves you isolated and experiencing separateness, not wisdom.



Sydney Banks, who devised the 'Three Principles' said “Let your negative thoughts go. They are nothing more than passing thoughts. You are then on your way to finding the peace of mind you seek... You are one thought away from happiness, one thought away from sadness. The secret lies in thought.” We should not seek happiness (which depends on our thoughts about people, places, events, and things), we should find joy (which comes from inside of us). This is the greatest wisdom.


Wisdom is the ability to contemplate, make choices and act productively using experience, understanding, insight, and intuition. Wisdom embodies humility because it comes from your soul. As such, wisdom comes from the heart, and not the intellectual mind. Blaise Pascal, the mathematician, pioneer in the Natural Sciences, and philosopher who had a spiritual experience, said “The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the Truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”


Many people have a lot of knowledge, but no wisdom. They know a lot of things, but they are not very wise. I have several higher degrees including a medical degree, a PhD, and a Master’s degree in philosophy and Natural Sciences from Trinity College, Cambridge, but I have never been taught any wisdom. Wisdom comes from intuition. It doesn’t come from your analytical (ego) mind. 


Steve Jobs reminded us that "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking."


Ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu said, "Know yourself, and you will win all battles." Laird Hamilton, a recent champion, has said, "Make sure your enemy does not lie between your two ears."


No matter how hard you think, you are not going to experience what you truly want and yearn to experience; what your soul wants to experience: Spiritual bliss; of BEing; of isness; wellbeing; of harmony; of affirmation; Truth (a great remembering of who you truly are); of being in the flow. 


Conclusion

I believe that wisdom is the divine intuition that your soul receives when you are fully present. Again, simply ask "What would love do?" This will give you all the intuitive wisdom that you need. Wisdom is the key to Universal Intelligence.


For my full article on 'Wisdom and Truth' click here:



Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you: Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.


George Bernard Shaw wrote that “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” Are you ready to change your mind?


Namaste.


Sending you love, light, and blessings brothers.


Olly



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