What Makes a Mind of Wisdom?

What do you see more of yourself as: the Knowledgeable or the Wise?

If the former, then you may find yourself watching the news, going to school, and perhaps conforming to all that is mainstream and media.

If you are the latter however, your perspective of the education system is that it has little to do with education at all. You read the news, but instead of agreeing to it, you empathize and psycho-analyze it. It's not surprising that you find yourself skeptic of all that is occuring. This is especially true, since you are well aware of the fact that surface of the media and government doesn't exactly convey all the details, essentially all that is necessary to seek truth.

So then, what it is that separates a Mind of Knowledge and a Mind of Wisdom? Ironically, there is nothing that separates them. They are essentially the same, and the only supposed difference is that a Mind of Wisdom chooses both knowledge as well as wisdom. A comparable level of importance does not exist in this theory. There is no particular choice that is "better than" the other. The choices of mind are both equal on the scale of value; it's just that one benefits a little more than the other.

The qualities that help to grasp the state of wisdom are many. For one thing, an open mind is absolutely necessary for the cause. Essentially, an individual must be able to doubt him or herself as many times as necessary in order to find the truth. It is quite ironic that a number of individuals in this world claim to have "discovered truth", for the essence of truth is that it is an ever-changing entity. What may seem as the highest truth in this era of time may very well become obsolete in a future lifetime. One important thing about renovating the mind is that the individual must step out of the mind itself. A Sartori moment calls for the individual to be able to put away all the petty fears that reside, and to approach reality face to face. Paradoxically, it is exactly that which makes rising to wisdom so difficult.

An open mind and an open heart are very similar in characteristic, if not the same. An open heart does not doubt. It knows that the Universe will provide for its cause, and it trusts that regardless the alleged circumstance, everything will be fine in the end. It takes just a matter of time to widely open the heart. It is more than just a "good thing" to open the heart - it is a new perspective towards life; a new set of "life shoes", if you will.

Know that an education is not a full education, unless the quest for wisdom is in pursuit. To believe any given piece of information that has been blindly handed down, is to take the seat of life and be blinded of the steering wheel - you will not know what direction to take. In order to get from the level of knowledge to the level of wisdom, it's necessary that you have doubt of what the surface says and to listen to the depths. Highly metaphorical and I absolutely apologize, but that is one of only a few ways to put it. The concept of wisdom does not exist in one's rational mind. Like emotions, wisdom is truly its own nature. It takes some sort of poet to explain wisdom, and yet it takes only the persuit of a human being to achieve it.