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Barred Owl on an early morning walk in the woods.
I've wondered if owls are actually as wise as they're reputed to be .... apparently not! It's quite easy to train a surprising array of wild birds (including my good friends, Harry, the heron and Sally, the egret) to respond to a certain food stimulus, but not owls.
Apparently, as with people, we think they're wise because they look smart. It's their eyes ... an owl's eyes are enormous compared to the size of its head. In humans, large pupils are equated with focusing and attention being paid. An owl's eyes are also fixed in its head. In order for an owl to move its eyes, it must move the whole head which gives an owl an intelligent gaze as it scans the surroundings.
Perhaps the earliest known link between owls and wisdom is their association with Athena. The Greek goddess of wisdom is often depicted holding an owl. Because of their close kinship with the night, owls are also associated with magic and witchcraft. Merlin was known to have an owl, and in the Harry Potter series, young wizards communicate by owl messengers instead of instant messengers. Nice trade off...:-)
Say to wisdom:
“You are my sister”; and may you call understanding itself “Kinswoman,” Proverbs 7:4. I find it interesting that the Good Book refers to wisdom as a woman. I tell you true, I strive to be that woman. Oh, I found these pretty little flowers while hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains.
“Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business. Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. It’s chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find without question.…
To fill the hour, - that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.… To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Experience
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“Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.” – Stephen R. Covey
Finding a large enough stick always seems to help get one’s life balanced, and if not it can make a big splash.
Old wisdom written by jesuit monniks in Valenciennes
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“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
Sandra Carey quotes
So much for "Enjoy our beer responsibly."
The bottlecap from a bottle of Newport Storm's Spring Irish Red Ale.
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Taken at Shimulia Kumarpara, Dhamrai, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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EXPLORED!!! (Jan 30, 2010 #212)
It was only till I had gained some accomplishment within my own tradition was I able to transcend it and perceive the blazing compassion and wisdom throughout all traditions equally.
While ultimately the basis of all transcendent wisdom and love is spacious self-sprung creativity of the Dharmakaya, it's indiscriminating expressions serve as the basis for all phenomena.
"Joining with the blissful space of me, your mother,
Roused by the helpless laborings of instinct
To mingle with my mind, your minds, as one -
This blessing gives you the Empowerment of Wisdom.
Hold the nature of this bliss unwavering,
And mingle emptiness therewith.
The spotless state of bliss-emptiness is nothing else.
Experience, O my sons, the supreme Joy of the Great Felicity!"
Introduction to the Four Joys by Yeshe Tsogyal
"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not."
Akhenaton
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With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
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Wisdom is what we have
when we think before we say
things that make no sense.
Wisdom is the truth that
clears our difficult path
so we can see clearly.
Wisdom are the words of the sage,
spoken without rage
for those who wish to learn.
But wise is the one who speaks
only when they have the intelligence
to remain silent.
Barbara Lynn Terry
“Looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct and separate, and piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing." Henepola Gunaratana
Image of cast concrete statue of Buddha created in response to May 20 Flickr Friday theme, "Wisdom."
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A shot from today's lunchtime walk. I continue to be impressed by the little Sony RX100 II. A superb little camera!
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson
Post processing bits: This shot has been processed by *super fun happy* action from the totally rad action pack and Dani's free tryout actions! [Ah! I wish i could purchase em all, they ARE amazing!]
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
Hermann Hesse
Bäume sind Heiligtümer. Wer mit ihnen zu sprechen, wer ihnen zuzuhören weiss, der erfährt die Wahrheit. Sie predigen nicht Lehren und Rezepte, sie predigen, um das einzelne unbekümmert, das Urgesetz des Lebens.
Hermann Hesse