Why Wisdom Doesn't Happen On the Couch -- Ecclesiastes/Kohelet #19

The Lion and the Ox: Two Modes of Jewish Leadership

Life's the greatest teacher.

Trial and error; seeing the good and the bad; comparing and contrasting; matching the the puzzle piece with it's true place; all create and build wisdom.

Just start; you'll make mistakes, but you'll learn, and that's the whole point.

Focus consistent effort in the right place, and you'll see success.

Potential is a puzzle piece too, and it needs the right soil to bear fruit.

Ecclesiastes/Kohelet 7:21-29

21) Finally, don’t pay attention to everything that is said, so that you may not hear your slave reviling you;

22) For well you remember the many times that you yourself have reviled others.

23) All this I tested with wisdom. I thought I could fathom it, but it eludes me.

24) [The secret of] what happens is elusive and deep, deep down; who can discover it?

25) I put my mind to studying, exploring, and seeking wisdom and the reason of things, and to studying wickedness, stupidity, madness, and folly.

26) Now, I find a woman more bitter than death; she is all traps, her hands are fetters and her heart is snares. He who is pleasing to God escapes her, and he who is displeasing is caught by her.

27) See, this is what I found, said Kohelet, item by item in my search for the reason of things.

28) As for what I sought further but did not find, I found only one human being in a thousand, and the one I found among so many was never a woman.

29) But, see, this I did find: God made men plain, but they have engaged in too much reasoning.

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