Twitter Wisdom

This from the lovely Gail Goodwin’s (aka @inspiremetoday) blog and many wonderful folks on Twitter. She asked people to share the best wisdom they ever learned in 140 characters. My response was: I can say it in one word. “Relax.”

There is no doubt that the more we can relax around even our most painful or stressful situations–the more we can relax about each thought in turn and not grasp any one of them too hard–the more readily natural, indestructible, non-personal wisdom arises. And then you can channel that. Without really understanding how it all works.

The moment I think I’ve got a lock on the formula for wisdom is the moment I’ll know I’ve stepped out of the stream. It seems that not knowing, being uncertain, testing each moment afresh, experiencing great awkwardness is wiser, far wiser, than thinking you’ve got anything figured out. After all, whatever you have figured out can only have applied to the past, perhaps not to the present. Letting go of that knowing is the only way to tell…

Check out what some other lovely people have said over at Gail’s blog.