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Wisdom
Simonthepilgrim
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Wi8sdom is at the heart of so many of our spiritual disciplines, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim and 'pagan'. I love these words from the Tanakh:
Wisdom 7: 7-11
I prayed, and understanding was given to me;
I entreated, and the spirit of Wisdom came to me.
I esteemed her more than sceptres and thrones;
Compared with her, I held riches as nothing.
I reckoned no priceless stone to be her peer,
For compared with her, all gold is a pinch of sand,
And beside her silver ranks as mud.
I loved her more than health or beauty,
Preferred her to the light,
Since her radiance never sleeps.
In her company all good things came to me,
At her hands riches not to be numbered.
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Namste
Kris
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Profound words are not cleaver.
Cleaver words are not profound.
Wise people are not quarrelsome.
Quarrelsome people are not wise.
Those who are intelligent
are not ideologues.
Those who are ideologues
are not intelligent.
The enlightened never hoard anything,
they share their possessions.
The more they give,
the greater their abundance.
The Dao [The Way]
is the physician of the Universe
who heals without harming
and who acts without contention.
Chapter 81, Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tsu (translated by Ralph Alan Dale)