Knowledge Is a Good Beginning
But You Are Only Half Way There
Knowledge Is Only Half Way There. I am so sick of hearing people parrot each other with the colloquialism, "Knowledge is Power". I say hogwash!
Knowledge is great, but it is like having a book. You can read it and come away with nothing or the message in the book can change the direction of your life. You can have it, read a little bit, set it on the shelf and never use it again. What value does that hold? None.
You must hone that knowledge, fashion it into wisdom. Carefully directing knowledge, tempered by reason causing a positive action is how you attain true wisdom. Simply brushing across information, education or experience is not an end. Practice and careful study of the wisdom culminate in a final, often life-changing moment when you attain enlightenment.
I am not talking about some hippie existentialism crap, I am talking about reaching a level of understanding, knowledge, a wealth of well-vetted information, knowledge. Knowledge which you have put into action with reason; Wisdom. Wisdom, that you are able to easily and powerfully pass on to others in a way that they can apply it for the betterment of themselves and all of us; Enlightenment.
Great article!