“If wisdom does not precede the “knowing”, then knowledge is secondhand, another’s understanding, and lacks depth.” Steven Levine
"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles. The details of knowledge which are important will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of wisdom." Alfred North Whitehead
Excerpt: A Gradual Awakening, Steven Levine
"One aspect of the power of wisdom is its ability to cut through what we have previously thought to be real. Each time we learn something new, we discard and old opinion, we change opinions. But wisdom is a stillness, a light within, in which we see what opinions themselves are; not just this opinion as opposed to that opinion, but what “opinion-ism” is. Opinionism is just mind clinging to an idea. When we open to the wisdom mind we see how things are and say, “Well, look how things change.”
Indeed, if we were to try to find a single truth all could agree on, it would perhaps be that everything changes. Opinions are constantly changing, the body is constantly changing, the world is constantly changing, and our relationships are constantly changing. As simple as that statement is, it is great wisdom. "
