Wisdom : accumulated philosophic or scientific learning : ability to discern inner qualities and relationships : good sense : generally accepted belief : knowledge, insight, judgment

I’ve paraphrased and pasted the Merriam Webster definition but the bigger question looms behind all those lovely sentiments…and that is, just how does one actually gain wisdom? How does one discern the right and wise thing to do? How do you tease out any of your own underlying motives, especially considering that so often our motives are even hidden from ourselves?

I try the acronym of WWLD: What Would Love Do? And even then…I’m not sure.

Instead, I do what I was advised to do so long ago, which is; Live The Question. Hang in the question, and try not to force an answer, but instead be okay with the unknowingness.

There is a myth about certainty. We want to know that we’re doing the right thing, believing the right thing or that we’re right and someone else is wrong. But the very nature of life is impermanence and change and certainty sounds more and more like a dangerous trap.  Maybe we can only sit with what is, and just do that with as much love and patience as possible.

Maybe that’s the wisdom; there is no perfect answer and my life and my writing is to simply live fully within the question…in love.

It is all so simple. But it is so not easy.