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copyright © 2002, by Karyn Greenstreet. All
rights reserved.
First, I'll warn you that I come from a 22-year
background in adult education. That, combined with a deep spiritual belief
in life, has given me a different view of learning than most trainers.
I
believe there is a difference between "knowledge" and
"wisdom." For me, knowledge is something obtained from outside
sources. Wisdom in something obtained from experience, and from within,
via insight. Wisdom is taking knowledge and merging it with common sense
and compassion, and a kind of "soul understanding." Wisdom is
deeper than knowledge; it is an understanding of the application of knowledge to
reality.
Knowledge
explains the technicalities of life. Wisdom explains the meaning in life.
I
can learn both knowledge and wisdom. I can teach knowledge;
wisdom will only be heard (and used) when the student is ready regardless of how
good the instructor is.
I
believe that each Soul has a series of lessons it must learn on the path to
enlightenment. Each Soul takes whatever time is necessary to learn an
individual lesson, even if the lesson must be repeated over and over again.
This happens for several reasons: First,
to a Soul, there is no time, so it doesn't matter how long it takes to learn.
Second, the Soul is put in a human body, and is instantly weighed down with ego,
emotion and social pressure, all which might encourage the human (and,
therefore, the Soul), to not learn.
So,
you can tell an employee who hates her job that she should leave it. Her
Soul understands that, but her humanness can not grasp the wisdom, even though
she understands the knowledge.
Our
job as spiritual beings is to be tolerant of people's struggles towards
wisdom...and to be compassionate with our own struggles as we transmute
knowledge into wisdom.
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Karyn Greenstreet is a Self Employment expert and small business coach. She
shares tips, techniques and strategies with self-employed people to boost
clarity and focus, create sustainable motivation, and increase sales and
profits.
Visit her website at
www.PassionForBusiness.com
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