Category: Wisdom

Wisdom of the Long View

If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work but rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  

Wisdom Right before our Eyes

For the month of September, the subject will be Wisdom. Guidance streams through the whole of creation, and in any moment we can recognize the form it is taking right before our eyes. – Patricia Campbell Carlson – sister of Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB

Wisdom from the Poet

The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.  – Wendell Berry

Wisdom of the Ages

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. – Ansel Adams

The Wisdom of Henry David Thoreau

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

The Wisdom of John Steinbeck

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. – John Steinbeck

Where Are You Going?

If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

How Do We Find the Path?

  A path is made by walking on it. – Zhuangzi

Never Give Up Dreaming

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. -C. S. Lewis  

The Wisdom of Experience

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. – Aldous Huxley