How To Gain Wisdom And Become Wiser
Posted on May 17, 2009. Category: Wisdom.
Get wisdom. Get understanding. do not forget it. – Proverbs 4:5
There’s no particular method for gaining wisdom. Wisdom can be gained almost everywhere and anytime. Even if we quiet our mind, remove our self from the outer world, we can gain wisdom from the silence within us.
Experience can give us wisdom. It does not have to be personal experience, it can be from others. We cannot go through every experience by our self. Life’s short but we have unlimited amount of learning capability. Thus we can learn and gain wisdom through experience of other people. Every experience should be counted, good or bad.
If we constantly learn from experiences, we will gain wisdom and become wiser. From experience, we learn to think better and make better choices in life. By thinking better and making better choices, we improve our life. By improving our life, we make good life. That’s the purpose of wisdom, to help us make good life. To make good life is then the purpose of our life.
Our life are made by the choices we took. People does not seem to realize this. They do not analyze their circumstances yet they blame outer things if anything goes wrong. A wise person will analyze the whole circumstance from the start to the end. He knows he creates or attracts every circumstance he experience.
Observation gives us more wisdom. Observe people and everything that happens around us and them. Although wisdom can be found everywhere, it’s beyond ordinary physical senses. We must look and see beyond to gain wisdom and be wiser. Every circumstance or event have its lesson for us, nothing is perfectly bad or good.
This world is created in balance. For every dark side, there’s an equal amount of light side. Wise people look at the light side more than the dark side. At the same time, they do not ignore the dark side. They look at the dark side only once to find the reason it exist in their life. A wise person knows exactly how to extract wisdom from both light and dark.
Young or old, both of them provides wisdom to one another. Every human has something to teach and every human has something to learn. Learning and gaining wisdom is never ending process. When people are talking, we should listen to them and find out what we can gain from their talking or behavior. Wilson Mizner have said “A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after awhile, he knows something.”
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Interesting. I agree that learning and unlocking our wisdom is a never ending process. I believe this life is but one leg of our journey and that not all wisdom is acquired in this lifetime. I do not agree about the absoluteness of duality nor that there is even a dark and light side only a matter of what our perspective and wisdom’s deems dark and light to be. As we unlock greater wisdom we tend to see less as being dark and all as having purpose. Your post prompted good thoughts!
Mark on May 18, 2009.
A very meaningful post with practical and useful suggestions to become wise. Long time back I read a quote: ‘We all are fools for at least five minutes a day, but wisdom lies in not exceeding that limit.’ Thanks for sharing such wise words.
Amritbir Kaur on May 19, 2009.
Thank you for the great reminders. I try to remember to look at events that happen with an eye towards understanding what the lesson is and trust that everything unfolds perfectly.
Susan Hanshaw on May 23, 2009.
You have a wonderful site here. I really enjoyed reading your posts, great information.
Experience is our greatest teacher and every relationship teaches us something.
Thank you for sharing all of this.
Love and Blessings,
AngelBaby
AngelBaby on May 31, 2009.
I believe that we gain wisdom from encountering challenges and over coming them. That is the way to earn wisdom. Thanks for sharing.
Giovanna Garcia
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Giovanna Garcia on May 31, 2009.