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Today I am super grateful for the wisdom that people have that they share and don't keep to themselves. Much as we want to think we are all that and more...we aren't.  And if we are open to it we can benefit greatly from other people's life experiences that can speak into our own.  Whether it is through seeing a counselor or reading a book or hearing a person I respect speak, or doing all of those, the wisdom that others generously share with me I am so grateful for.  I want to grow in wisdom myself and when I allow myself to be open to seeing the truth about myself so that I can grow and change and mature in life and wisdom then I'm guessing y'all will be grateful! (Kind of like the "whew, finally she's better" kind of grateful - ha!)

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James Ah.  Today's quote is a hidden gem.  But I think I would add to it, no offense to Mr. James.  The art of being wise is also knowing what to address.  There is a fine balance between knowing what to overlook and what to address.  And there is wisdom in knowing how to do either; how to behave and how to speak (those two things cover a lot of ground).  Wisdom includes timing and timing is everything.  Address or overlook in the right time frame and things go well.  Address or overlook in the wrong time frame and things will go poorly.  Wisdom requires patience, to overlook or address.  Wisdom requires speaking carefully, with grace, and with truth.   When have you seen wisdom work well?  When have you wished you exercised wisdom?  

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.   Herb Caen Don't you hate it when you take too big of a bite and your mouth is full to capacity, and then some?  Man I feel so silly when I do that, like I should know better.  How about you?  Well in today's quote the same idea is applied to our life situations. Sometimes we take too big of a bite of life - a conflict, a job, a relationship, pretty much anything where wisdom is necessary - and we discover that we need some extra teeth to chew through what we've bit off.  That's when we start bringing forth those wisdom teeth.  The gums bleed and the pain is excruciating but the teeth are necessary for getting through the bite.  To get through life successfully we need wisdom, without it we won't get very far.  We feel silly when we realize we need more wisdom to get through something hard, we feel like we should have known better but we usually don't ...

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.   Anne Sexton Intellect and its partner, knowledge, are deceptive.  They trick people into thinking that they are wise or that someone they know is wise.  But wisdom is so much different than intellect and knowledge that they don't even live in the same home.  The definitions of intellect and knowledge include each other.  And they don't include feeling, or emotion, into their descriptions.  Wisdom does include some knowledge but it draws more from life experiences, observations, and emotion.  It considers more than the textbook stuff and takes into account life which is what rounds out the textbooks and brings them to life.  In the end when all you have and all you are speaking is from a place of intellect you prove yourself to know nothing at all.  You, as Sexton says in to...

It's Friday and we should have a little fun, a little light-heartedness considering I've tackled some heavy topics this week.  :)  So without further ado I give you some sage wisdom from Dr. Suess.  Read 'em and be amazed at the truth that lies within the rhymes.  Happy finally Friday!