WISE

Intelligence without wisdom is dangerous and destructive.

We do need intelligence, be it logic, concepts or abstract thought, but from weapons to war, business to bitcoin, concrete to chemicals, plastic to pandemics, AI to agriculture … intelligence without wisdom is demonically dangerous and destructive.

Without wisdom, there is no compassion and without compassion, our race simply will not survive.

Wisdom does not come from thinking or knowledge but comes from awareness. Yet our institutions, universities, economies and politicians still shun wisdom to worship at the altar of intelligence.

And our intelligence is destroying us.

But this human habit of worshipping intelligence is relatively recent. We still have time to remember our innate wisdom, heal and change.

Wisdom, learning to surrender to impermanence, befriending change, understanding nature, be it human, global or universal, in all its paradoxical glory, will save us.

Being wise will save us.

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