The Wisdom Chronicles is a place to answer one simple question: “What is the deepest wisdom you’ve gained so far?” Answer it with your spontaneous first-thought answer. If you spend time working on the answer, it will change. So capture the power of your first thought.
Deepest Wisdom
Enjoy the ride.
Age 56
Male
Forgiveness
Age 24
Male
The deepest wisdom I have gained is to trust myself.
This is especially true when there are conflicting opinions or when I’m feeling the urge to please.
Age 65
Female
With age comes wisdom, but more importantly, patience.
You learn that this too will pass away. You live in the present where there is always something new to learn.
Age 75
Female
Your girlfriends are the most important people in your life.
This fact is more so on some levels even than husbands and children. Girlfriends are the greatest gift of our lives.
Age 66
Female
I do always know if I listen closely.
Age 67
Female
It’s all about love.
Age 69
Female
The only thing I take personally is love.
Everything else is about the other person’s issues.
Age 58
Female
I create my own reality.
Age 63
Female
Have faith. The rest will follow.
Age 90
Female
Life is the school and love is the lesson
Age 49
Female
Patience. The garden grows and things change in a natural process.
Stages come and go. See how change happens especially with children and see how patience allows these changes to happen with the least amount of stress.
Age 54
Female
Let the essence of the real you out.
Age 69
Female
Count your blessings
Age 93
Male
Don’t be such a worry wort.
Age 87
Female
The gift of how to move.
Age 31
Male
The gift of how to move is the short answer. The actual words that popped into my mind were “bodywork”. To me, bodywork is probably a very different and much more expansive concept than what most people think (that aren’t massage therapists -aka, bodyworkers, themselves).
My life has been gifted with many trails of wonder and intrigue that have led me further and deeper into the mysteries of the universe via Soma. Soma is body, and when you really take the time to explore just what this mass of tissues, liqiuids, senses and consciousness is, it is quite a beutiful thing. And so damned awe-inspiring.
Bodywork is more than just what I do for a living. It is becoming my life and I want it to! I consider bodywork to be the culmination of wisdom in practice due to and found within various ancient and possibly yet unkown systems of working with the affore-mentioned definition of body. Such systems include Yoga, QiGong (Chi Kung), Tai Chi, Massage (perhaps not all massge falls into this category, but I assure you there are many therapists out there who do practice such mindfulness in their work), and even buddhist, yogic and other forms of meditation.
This is my life’s dedication and I am so fortunate and grateful for being here and on this path. It has literaly saved my life from darkness, depression, drugs and violence. I am sure I would have been dead was it not for the path of healing and wisdom.
For this reason I have made it my mission to reach people with the simple truth and healing energy of these practices so that they too may strip away that which inhibits them and makes them not who they want to be. So that YOU may find your true path and true voice.
I am light.
Age 62
Female
Keep busy. Remember that you will always know what they want for you. And never wish them back.
This is about death and losing a loved one. While my grandmother was dying, she gave this advice to my mother, who later gave it to me while she was on her own death bed.
Age 65
Female
Grow old gracefully.
Age 50
Female
Nature will help you if you let her.
Age 89
Male
This is from my father. He also added: “Animals will teach you everything you need to know. Don’t rush things. Take your time and figure things out.”
I can trust my intuition.
Age 64
Female
Sharing. Like sharing your toys.
Age 3
Female
Grace is all around in every moment.
Age 52
Female
When we get quiet, the earth will speak to us.
Age 52
Female
My essence is light.
Age 50
Female
You can’t fight nature.
Age 65
Male
These are purportedly my paternal grandfather’s deathbed words (age 65). He was an Iowa farmer. My own father, who has told me this story 100 times, thought he was offering a kind of farming advice. I wonder. I think these words extrapolate themselves quite well to many other interpretations.
I can absolutely create my own reality.
Age 57
Female