having 20 years' experience, and having one year's experience 20 times.
Yep, I think that's an apt analogy.
As an old person with a questing mind and a need to learn
Which you've always had, I'm sure. I think people can acquire a habit of learning, or they can be born with an innate sense of wanting to know. Most of us get too caught up in our habits. If karma is anything, it's the momentum of habitual living, repeated endlessly, until one makes a conscious attempt to free oneself.
I'm not sure I know what wisdom is, either. It's one of those semi-mythical terms people throw about, like enlightenment and whatall. Maybe wisdom is in the doing (like enlightenment) rather than in the attainment of some state of being.
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Date: 2013-11-22 07:01 pm (UTC)Yep, I think that's an apt analogy.
As an old person with a questing mind and a need to learn
Which you've always had, I'm sure. I think people can acquire a habit of learning, or they can be born with an innate sense of wanting to know. Most of us get too caught up in our habits. If karma is anything, it's the momentum of habitual living, repeated endlessly, until one makes a conscious attempt to free oneself.
I'm not sure I know what wisdom is, either. It's one of those semi-mythical terms people throw about, like enlightenment and whatall. Maybe wisdom is in the doing (like enlightenment) rather than in the attainment of some state of being.