Archive for January 2, 2008
Wisdom Is.
I never thought Wisdom and Happiness come together.
We think very quickly how knowledgeable people are mostly….unhappy.
I wouldn’t say mostly, but it’s true intelligence doesn’t equal to joy.
It’s said the more you know, the more depressed you are.
It sometimes gets neurotic huh.
I read about what Billy Graham has to say about this
And he’s differentiated knowledge and wisdom right on the bull’s eye -
‘Knowledge is horizontal.
Wisdom is vertical.
It comes down from above.’
Knowledge is passed on from human to human.
You get it from school and textbooks.
But the transaction remains on level ground,
Rather, there’s a distinct limit to where our minds can elevate to.
But Wisdom,
It can be received from others,
But only those who seeks and finds Wisdom from the only Source.
And then St. Augustine takes it further -
‘No one is truly happy
If he has what he wants,
But only if
He wants something
He should have.’
‘If he has what he wants’…
What I want….
Yes, my selfish ambition doesn’t bring me any good all the time.
I read last night,
That where there is selfish ambition,
There you will find disorder.
If I want happiness,
I must pursue what I know I should have.
What should I have?
What should I own?
Show me from above.
I seek what is Eternal.
