Talk Takeaways
Wisdom, peace and silence are intimately connected to a new understanding of a unity that had always been here.
Thoughts are outside of you, and you will not find wisdom through them.
We do not know how to search for wisdom because we do not yet know how to BE.
How did the wise man become wise? He stopped answering his own questions.
The mind that is seeking to escape itself lives in a world of duality.
The mind entertains itself with questions and then answers its own questions, believing that is wisdom.
Questions arise in the mind when it doesn't want what it is experiencing, when there is a disparity between what it is expecting and what is actually happening.
It is conflict itself that asks questions and then answers how to bring about an end to conflict.
There is no peace in a self that can be stirred into a negative state by an event. That self doesn't lose its peace. Rather, it has never had peace.
The part of you that is stirred by an event is not separate from the event that stirred it. The capacity to see that the two are one is wisdom. Wisdom is not a power. It is a light that unites.
Because we follow them, we believe there is intelligence in reactions.
The lower level of consciousness seeks to unify by creating more separation.
Our real need is to be present outwardly and inwardly at the same time. Wisdom is found within the capacity to attend to the outer and the inner at the same time.
The fallen consciousness has a preference for self over wisdom. Wisdom's preference is to see.