Knowledge is a commercial harvest, something that can be planned, sown, grown and collected with hard work and foresight.
Wisdom is the unexpected flower that grows on the edge of that field, the one that sprouted of the free-floating seed that found fallow ground.
We are very good at knowledge nowadays. Clear-cutting forest to make way for the bounty of science and reason we know how to do. But we've forgotten the patience and open heart that attract wisdom.
If you never add another piece of knowledge to this world, perhaps it will be a poorer place. But if you help even a single heart unfold enough to allow the free-floating seeds of wisdom in: then you will accomplish what you wish to accomplish. Perhaps not on the global, epic scale that you hope--but every movement, no matter how grand in scope, begins with a single person.
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Date: 2004-10-22 07:51 am (UTC)Wisdom is the unexpected flower that grows on the edge of that field, the one that sprouted of the free-floating seed that found fallow ground.
We are very good at knowledge nowadays. Clear-cutting forest to make way for the bounty of science and reason we know how to do. But we've forgotten the patience and open heart that attract wisdom.
If you never add another piece of knowledge to this world, perhaps it will be a poorer place. But if you help even a single heart unfold enough to allow the free-floating seeds of wisdom in: then you will accomplish what you wish to accomplish. Perhaps not on the global, epic scale that you hope--but every movement, no matter how grand in scope, begins with a single person.
Seek the right thing, arii. :)