In this weeks post I will speak on what it means to have wisdom….

So many people spend years educating themselves with all different types of degrees, certifications, and licensing. It requires them to constantly be disciplined and diligent with their studies to keep up on there path of growth. With these studies they can grow an expanded knowledgeable mind that can be quite impressive and open many doors for them in life.

Though, I would have to say that this is not wisdom. Knowledge is not the full extent of wisdom. Wisdom certainly requires you to have some knowledge, but there are many people that have all the knowledge in the world and still live with very little wisdom at all.
For example, there are people that study their Holy scriptures for years, whether it be the Holy Bible, The Koran, or the Bhagavad-Gita, and still have very little wisdom concerning these wonderful spiritual books.
Once a man told me, “if I were standing across from you and between us was a plate with a lemon on it, and neither of us has ever tasted a lemon before. I will put the lemon in my mouth first and then tell you what the lemon taste like.” As he puts the lemon in his mouth you stand there studying his facial expressions and body movements. When he is done with the lemon he tells you exactly what the lemon tasted like and what it felt like in his mouth.
Now, after watching the man eat the lemon you have all the knowledge of what a lemon tastes like, but yet you have still never experienced what a lemon really tastes like for yourself.

Wisdom works in the same way. There are many people that will tell you there religious or spiritual beliefs until they are blue in the face and try to get you to see what they see. Unfortunately many of them have a great deal of knowledge about there Holy scripture, but they have very little or NO experience of what God actually is.

To say that God is Love, but to never experience unconditioned Love for yourself or for others is not speaking wisely at all.

Wisdom comes with an inner knowing of experience. All the great mystics of history have told us that in order to hear the voice of God you must be silent. That means that we need to stop talking, stop thinking, and stop looking for a moment and sit in the stillness. This is when the knowing/experience of God flows through you.

Once you have experienced this, it doesn’t become a necessity to try and get other people to live like you, but rather you choose to just live in it yourself and watch others change their lives around you because of the wisdom that you walk with at all times.
The dictionary would define wisdom as precisely this,

1. the quality of being wise; power of judging rightly and following the soundest course of action, based on knowledge, experience, understanding, etc.