LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
This sounds like a false dilemma. Because you see, wisdom must come from within, but one can recognize it in a quote.
One of my favorite examples of this comes from a TV series very few people would look to in the hopes of finding wisdom. Rick & Morty. In the episode, Rick, Beth's father, has been messing with her husband, Jerry, picking at his self-esteem, because Rick resents Jerry for marrying his daughter. Hurt and insecure, Jerry asks Beth if she loves him. Instead of simply answering him, she asks, "Do you want homeless people to have houses?" His immediate response is to say yes. She follows this up by asking if he's going to build them for them. When he says no, she asks, "Then what good was the yes?"
Beth's point to Jerry is that love is more than just a feeling, or a desire. In order to love someone, one needs to put in the work. Love it's not something you feel. It's something you do.
And my point to you is that this scene in the show resonated with me, not because I needed wisdom from outside of myself, but because I felt its truth within myself. The lesson came from a cheesy cartoon whose main character is so unbelievably toxic and narcissistic that he destroys everything around him.
But really, it came from me. My highest self.
We all have that part of ourselves, that knows things, that manipulates our environment to tell us those things. And so your question, whoever you are, is one that comes from a lack of understanding of how things work. Because the only source for any of the wisdom you have found in life is you.
One of my favorite examples of this comes from a TV series very few people would look to in the hopes of finding wisdom. Rick & Morty. In the episode, Rick, Beth's father, has been messing with her husband, Jerry, picking at his self-esteem, because Rick resents Jerry for marrying his daughter. Hurt and insecure, Jerry asks Beth if she loves him. Instead of simply answering him, she asks, "Do you want homeless people to have houses?" His immediate response is to say yes. She follows this up by asking if he's going to build them for them. When he says no, she asks, "Then what good was the yes?"
Beth's point to Jerry is that love is more than just a feeling, or a desire. In order to love someone, one needs to put in the work. Love it's not something you feel. It's something you do.
And my point to you is that this scene in the show resonated with me, not because I needed wisdom from outside of myself, but because I felt its truth within myself. The lesson came from a cheesy cartoon whose main character is so unbelievably toxic and narcissistic that he destroys everything around him.
But really, it came from me. My highest self.
We all have that part of ourselves, that knows things, that manipulates our environment to tell us those things. And so your question, whoever you are, is one that comes from a lack of understanding of how things work. Because the only source for any of the wisdom you have found in life is you.
exexec · 70-79, C
I just got an email that quoted something I told a friend 20 years ago. He thinks I am wise. I had to remind him that I got the idea from someone else. I doubt if any of my wisdom is original.
4meAndyou · F
When I was about 25 years old, I ran out to the base of a tall monument in a local park and PRAYED for wisdom!!! Somewhere, I had heard that this was the ONE prayer that God always answered.
At the time, I was as silly as a goose. 🤭🤭🤭
What I didn't realize is that when you pray for wisdom, God plants a tiny seed in your mind...and then it takes a LIFETIME to grow! 🥴🥴🥴
At the time, I was as silly as a goose. 🤭🤭🤭
What I didn't realize is that when you pray for wisdom, God plants a tiny seed in your mind...and then it takes a LIFETIME to grow! 🥴🥴🥴
Mostly what I read on the walls in convenience store bathrooms.
Lostpoet · M
Books, music, and my own self.
hunkalove · 70-79, M
I get all my wisdom from SW.
Onryo · 22-25, F
I get my wisdom from you oh great question robot, you are the one true leader
Prettybratbi1tch · 26-30, F
I come here for that
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
From Nature mostly. Especially regarding change. Yet nature is pervasive in everything and everything changes.
Allelse · 36-40, M
From the voices in my head.
Achelois · F
From withn, discernment that something isn’t right.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@Achelois Yeah? How's that working out for you? Still convinced that all the evidence have provided you for the moon landings is a bunch of hooey because some guy on YouTube told you so?
Achelois · F
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@Achelois I actually find being clever doesn't work out so well for me. Go watch Mike Judge's Idiocracy if you want an idea of what I mean.
Donotfolowme · 51-55, F
Everything around me teaches me something
OverTheHill · 61-69, M
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight." Proverbs 9:10
rinkydinkydoink · M
Wisdom is overrated.
YoMomma · 41-45
Anywhere.. i make my own usually.. unlike some posers/reposters
faery · 31-35, F
No way a robot is responsible for these horribly written and inane questions
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@faery Nope. If you click on the robot's name, you can see where it lets you post your own questions, and either take credit or keep your name out of it. And someone is abusing it.
faery · 31-35, F
@LordShadowfire I guess I just insulted 'anonymous' 😅