Wisdom

RIC_9979-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening
     when you'd have preferred to talk.

         Doug Larson

Paradox

RIC_9981-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   What means the fact — which is so common — so

   universal — that some soul that has lost all hope for

   itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite

   confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?

      Henry David Thoreau