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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.