Unfortunately, we value information, but not wisdom. Information is something we can measure, but wisdom - Where does it come from? How do you get it? If we say that wisdom comes from good judgment, that still leaves us with the question of where good judgment come from. It seems to me that good judgment comes from experience, which comes from bad judgment. In other words, wisdom comes from all the mistakes that we have made. Part of being able to make a good finale in our life is to accept that our mistakes have given you the wisdom you have now. Wisdom comes from garnering, reconstructing, and reconfiguring what we have done in order to use the information we have gotten from the mistakes we have made. This is how we harvest a lifetime.
- Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Excerpted from Nourishing the Soul: Discovering the Sacred In Everyday Life
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