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The
Wisdom Page is a website dedicated to helping us better understand
wisdom — that vitally important but poorly understood
pinnacle of human functioning.
What
is wisdom? How
can it be developed?
There
are no short answers to those questions, but there are answers.
Wisdom is multi-faceted. For milennia, students of wisdom and writers
about it have associated wisdom with a number of positive human
characteristics. Among them are
the 48 that are displayed, one-by-one, over the "world
at night" image above.
Since
1995 The Wisdom Page has been connecting wisdom-interested people
with a wide range of wisdom-related resources. Over the years the
website has expanded in content and grown in popularity. Now, each
month, it delivers more than 24,000 documents, podcasts, and videos
to visitors from more than 130 countries. (For more detail
see the Wikipedia article titled The
Wisdom Page.)
The
Wisdom Page team includes writers, teachers, wisdom researchers,
and people from all walks of life who see wisdom as central to personal
and societal well being. I hope you enjoy your visit, and if you
have comments, suggestions or questions you'd like to share with
us — or would like to receive a monthly email update about
additions to the website — click
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USING THE WISDOM PAGE FOR PERSONAL STUDY
Having
many hundreds of resources available is wonderful, but what
if you are someone fairly new to the idea of wisdom who simply
wants to get a better understanding of the concepts and issues?
Where do you start?
To
help solve this problem we carefully selected text, audio,
and video resources that represent four different levels of
interest, prior knowledge about wisdom, and personal involvement.
We have arranged them in four tiers which move step by step
from a casual-interest starting point to — should you
wish to pursue it — a deep investigation. Enter at whatever
tier seems the best fit for you. Exit whenever you wish. Clicking
the link above will take you to the introductory page and
links to the four tiers.
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is a free online course in practical wisdom. It is the outgrowth
of a classroom course given at Rollins College by Professor
Alan Nordstrom, and uses short chapters from Cop Macdonald's
book GETTING A LIFE to stir thinking about many common
life situations.
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Wisdom
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A
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MIND
FLIGHT: Wisdom, Enlightenment, and the Journey of Life
is an exciting, insightful, and wide-ranging personal quest book
by Thomas Lombardo and Jeanne Belisle Lombardo. Read the first few
chapters here.
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