Wisdom is different for everyone. What is wise to one is folish to another, but humans seem to need some kind of wisdom whether it is their own or societies to feel like they are more in control etc.
What is the best wisdom you have? Did you learn it from a person, an experience or other? And why does this wisdom work for you?
I am not really looking for any debate here, I am just curious of what is important to people and why.
(My best wisdom is to have a balanced mind and to follow your goals, but do more than that, actually STUDY things relevant your goals, so they are not just empty goals leading to disapointments, but things that you can actually accomplish . . . I think this would make for a few more happy people on this green and blue ball. And lastly avoid anything that will make you insane and out of control, sounds simple, but its important in my mind. I have got all of this from experience. )
have you read the aphorism/adage stage? Its similar to what you seem to be proposing.
my wisdom would be, er:
logic is true, by definition.
deconstruction can be followed by reconstruction.
“relativism” and “liberal” are not swear words.
eat more vegetables and dance more.
All you are is what you do in life. Everything else is just circumstancual. Your an evil person if you do evil things. Your a self centered person if you only care about physical rewards and physical beauty.
I think of physical beauty as being physically fit (it even feels better massaging a physically fit person), and then having an even flow to your features. The rest of beauty is from having a glow about yourself, from the way you feel or act. Then true beauty is love, cause love teaches you to change all of your preconceptions of beauty.
relationships are baced on many aspects. But any relationship you have is all give and take. You cannot take any more then you give, otherwize you’ll screw it up. Then there’s taking a relationship for granted, and just expecting things to be, and getting stuck in a rut. It’s all about what you do together. If you limit the relationship to certain aspects it might not be as fullfilling as others. That’s why married people need to at least be able to talk about everything.
Hobbies and interrests allow a person to learn,… and teach themselves how to learn. This build charecter, and self esteam from succeeding at something you like. Then gives you friends baced upon common interrests. Maybe that’ll limit people haveing drug friends, if they have better things to do with their time. Drugs are for people that are not saticfied with life, and look to drugs to feel the excitment and drama that TV promiced us from the age of 5.
I am asking the help of some friends in order to learn to live, and…learn to die. I don’t want to harm other creatures, I want to live in peace and let others live in peace too, but one thing I have learned is that it is impossible to live here without hurting and harming other creatures. Each one lives on the suffering he causes to his fellow man. The books I read help me to understand and to accept that a bit, but I am still confused, and I think I could give it up at any time…
I would like to know how I could abandon completely all the vain desires and vain illusions of this world. To become a perfect ascet: that’s my “ideal”, that would be all the “wisdom” of my life.
