Welcome Wisdom

Welcome to my blog "365 Days of Collected Wisdom".

It's very late Friday night or early Saturday morning. I am unable to sleep and have been thinking about starting a blog, primarily as an outlet for the thoughts that accumulate in my head.

My intention is to share a new "collected wisdom" every day for the next year. I call them collected wisdoms because the ideas I will share here have been collected by me through my life up to this point. Some have been handed down by my various life teachers, and some have popped out of my own mouth before I knew what I was saying. Others are collective wisdom, familiar advice handed down from generation to generation. If I can reference an author I will do so. If readers can assist me in referencing the author of any idea contained here, I will happily acknowledge it.

I don't claim that much here is original to me; even the thoughts I heard first from my own mouth feel more like 'Universal Truths' that I have somehow channelled in a special moment of clarity, and I can almost feel the minds of past sages wrapped around the words. Mostly I hope you enjoy these posts, that they inspire you on your journey, and that you spread the word about anything that speaks to you in this blog... After all, wisdom is without purpose if it is not shared :) I have no idea whether I can come up with a whole year of wisdom, but it seemed like a good challenge and a way to give this blog some focus and purpose. I guess we shall see how I go! Anyway let's get started:

Wisdom No 1

True wisdom belongs to no-one and everyone; wisdom is a collective phenomenon, arising from the sheer volume of repeated human experience (our successes and our mistakes) around the world and throughout the history of our time on the planet.