Now, I’m not claiming to be particularly wise.
Practical, mostly…
Fairly well-informed, probably….
But wise is something that I’m still working on here.
(It’s good to have goals.)
And looking both at folks far wiser than I am yet and at myself, one of the biggest pitfalls I find is this –
We know what to do and yet we do not do it!
We have the power to heal ourselves in body, mind and spirit…
Make our days go smoothly…..
Manifest abundance, joy and serendipity…
And still we do not do it!
Now what’s up with that?
I call it “the foolishness of the Wise”. It’s that phenomenon where you have all the knowledge you need to succeed, but can’t or won’t or just forget to use it on your own behalf. Where you know better, but still you mess up, over things that you could easily overcome.
The fact that even the Wise are not proof against their own folly….
And you know what? This seems to be a very human condition, one that stretches across all types of folks.
A Universal Foolishness….
So what do we do about this? How can we stop shooting ourselves in the foot? Running ourselves through the same wringer? Making the same mistakes when we have the tools to transcend?
What do you think?
One way is on the way…
Catherine
Foresight
8/31/10