Episode #887
January 31, 2026
I have lived for 72 years and experienced every moment of it.
There have been difficult and challenging moments. There have been easy and obvious revelations. Reflection on those experiences has turned events into insight. Wisdom grows by learning from others. So much is taught by others… the teachers, partners, friends, and family. Self-awareness is cultivated by staying curious and open to new perspectives. I have allowed time to reveal patterns that inform my perspective. This living has developed a compassion that widens understanding beyond myself.
Wisdom is the ability to understand what truly matters and to act on that understanding with good judgment. It’s not just knowledge, but the skillful use of knowledge — seeing the deeper pattern behind events, balancing logic with compassion, and choosing actions that lead toward well-being, truth, and clarity.
Wisdom is less a possession than a way of perceiving — a lens that reveals significance where others see only circumstance. Wisdom does not arise from accumulating more facts, but from discerning the enduring from the temporary, the essential from the accidental. It is the art of orienting one’s life toward what has weight.
Philosophers have long noted that the unwise are not those who know little, but those who misjudge value. One may know everything about a situation and still miss its meaning, just as one can stare at a forest and never see the tree that is dying quietly in the shade. Wisdom begins when we learn to see clearly.
Wisdom is not just knowledge, but the skillful use of knowledge — seeing the deeper pattern behind events, balancing logic with compassion, and choosing actions that lead toward well-being, truth, and clarity.
To “see the deeper pattern” is to recognize that events do not exist in isolation. Every choice is part of a web of causes and consequences, many of which unfold slowly or invisibly. The wise person looks for the forces beneath the surface — the fears that shape decisions, the habits that drive conduct, the desires that guide a life often without being acknowledged.
None of this is achieved in haste. The long, slow, deliberate process of shaping yourself into a human being produces wisdom that is worthy of sharing.
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