wisdom of the wise is a blog that looks into the questions that the wise raise and try to draw lessons from them. it is a blog that discusses the problems of our common human existence and the way forward. it is a blog for those who love wisdom .this blog gives you first hand inspirational talks to see you through your day. This blog basically features 4 article series which are: wisdom series, motivational series, rhapsody of thoughts, and nature speaks.

Tuesday 20 December 2011

CONTENTMENT

    WISDOM SERIES

In the world of fantasy, there exists many injurious things that causes the hearts of men excess want. In the world of vanity, the unimportant things are the things that captivate the sense of men. In the world of the spendthrift, everything is good for buying. But in the world of resource management, budget is necessary. This world is characterized by contentment and this contentment gives birth to inner peace. I know of a rich man (whether this man be real or fictional, i knoweth not but he exists in my thoughts of possibility). This man had pretty much that he could afford numerous houses and cars as he pleases. But this man built just a house and furnished it to his taste. He bought just 2 cars that served his and the family's daily purpose. There were adverts and commercials everywhere that was always telling him to change his old stuffs and go for new ones but if these things don't serve his purpose, he just ignores them. The millions keeps rolling into his account just there for him to spend but he just leaves money needed to meet the family's need in his account and gives the rest money to orphans, widows and less privileged. He simply says: "how much does one need to keep alive? What use will all these wealth be if I die today? I guess what we really need in life is just a shelter over our head, clothing to cover our nakedness , then a plate and a spoon."
This is true contentment and it's what we all should practice.  




      Thanks,
Nesimeye .I. Oswald
    Blog author

FEARS--what are they?

            WISDOM SERIES                 

        As it has been defined by many, FEAR is 'A FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL'. Which ever way it must have been defined, the bottom line is: Our FEARS are those things that we are afraid of. Just as the circumstances surrounding peoples life are different, so also are their fears different. Our fears are at most times our Achilles heels. For me, i am not afraid of situations that prove themselves impassable or circumstances that present themselves as an obstacle because i probably see them as challenges that can be overcomed.  I guess life is pretty much an adventure for me and just like a friend said "life itself is a challenge so if life gives us all that our hearts bid, then where is the challenge in life?." Primarily, the things that i am afraid of are these:

1. Disconnection from God.
2. A proud heart.
3. Disconnection from wisdom , vision and purpose.
4. Disconnection from inner peace.

Can a house stand without its pillars?, how can the spider climb without its webs?, or can appliances work without a source of power?. Those are some of the things that my fears spell. I can't begin to imagine the misery and randomness that my life will face when my fears come real. But sometimes i think : what is there to really be afraid of ? I mean, the precursor to the establishment of our fears are the granting of our consents to it. In the practical world, nothing happens without our awareness. Even in the face of unforeseen occurrences  that befall us sometimes  ,when we are down we get back up. When we make mistakes, we draw our lessons and make it right another day. When we are dissapointed, we do not quit but keep pushing on. Just like my friend said: "life itself is a challenge, so if life gives us all that our hearts bid  then where is the challenge in life?" . Looking at all these , i concluded that there is nothing really to be afraid of. I guess it's true what they say:"FEAR IS A FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL"

      Thanks,
NESIMEYE .I. OSWALD
     Blog Author

Saturday 3 December 2011

WHAT IS THE BOND THAT HOLDS THE CONSTELLATION OF ORION?

                                 
             WISDOM SERIES                                                                                                                          

THE CONSTELLATION OF ORION THE HUNTER                    
                                                                                                                                                            WHO KNOWS THE BOND THAT HOLDS ORION BOUND?


              LOOKING UP IN THE NIGHT SKY , WE SEE A CONSTELLATION OF STARS BOUND TOGETHER. IT IS ORION A CONSTELLATION OF STARS ARRAYED IN BEAUTY AND ARMED WITH  SWORD AND SHIELD .YEAR IN YEAR OUT THEY STAY TOGETHER. THEIR BONDS CANNOT BE BROKEN AND SOMETIMES I WONDER IF IT IS LOVE THAT HOLDS THEM BOUND BECAUSE IT IS ONE THING THAT CAN PRODUCE SUCH A STRONG BOND BUT AGAIN I REASON ; CAN STARS LOVE?
I DON'T KNOW THIS ANSWER BUT I BELEIVE THAT WHAT WE CALL OBJECTS OR THINGS OF NATURE SOMETIMES ARE WHAT CAN HEAR AND TAKE COMMANDS FROM THE CREATOR .
THIS SENSE OF BELEIVE STEMS FROM THE BLBLE BOOK OF  (JOB  38:1-35) AND IT READS THUS "1 THEN THE LORD ANSWERED JOB OUT OF THE WHIRLWIND AND SAID 2 WHO IS THIS THAT DARKENETH COUNSEL BY WORDS WITHOUT KNOWLEGE 3 GIRD UP THY LOINS LIKE A MAN FOR I WILL DEMAND OF THEE, AND ANSWER THOU ME 4...7 WHEN THE MORNING STARS SANG TOGETHER, AND ALL THE SONS OF GOD SHOUTED FOR JOY? 8 OR WHO SHUT UP THE SEA WITH DOORS WHEN IT BRAKE FORTH, AS IF IT HAD ISSUED OUT OF THE WOMB? 9 WHEN I MADE THE CLOUD THE GARMENT THEREOF, AND THICK DARKNESS  A SWADDLINGBAND FOR IT, 10 AND BRAKE UP FOR IT MY DECREED PLACE, AND SET BARS AND DOORS, 11 AND SAID, HITHERTO SHALT THOU COME,
BUT NO FUTHER: AND HERE SHALL THY PROUD WAVES BE STAYED 12 HAST THOU COMMANDED THE MORNING SINCE THY DAYS; AND CAUSED THE DAY SPRING TO KNOW HIS PLACE;...31 CANST THOU BIND THE SWEET INFLUENCES OF PLAIDES, OR LOOSE THE BANDS OF ORION?...34 CANST THOU LIFT UP THY VOICE TO THE CLOUDS, THAT ABUNDANCE OF WATERS MAY COVER THEE? 35 CANST THOU SEND LIGHTNINGS, THAT THEY MAY GO AND SAY UNTO THEE, HERE WE ARE? ". I PROBABLY DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE THINKING RIGHT NOW .
           I BELEIVE SCIENTISTS IN THE HOUSE WOULD SAY  THAT GRAVITY IS THE FORCE THAT HOLDS ORION BOUND I GUESS EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO HIS/HER OWN OPINION. BUT THIS IS WHAT I THINK 'THE STARS AND MANY OTHER WORK OF GOD'S HAND CAN HEAR HIS VOICE AND TAKE ORDERS FROM HIM AND IF THE STARS COULD SING JOYFULLY TOGETHER AS SEEN IN (JOB 38:7 ),THEN WHY CAN'T THEY LOVE? . DON'T LAUGH AT MY HYPOTHESIS EVEN I STILL FEEL LIKE LAUGHING MYSELF BUT I THINK I WOULD RESERVE MY LAUGHTER AND PONDER OVER THESE THINGS BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE THE REAL WISDOM LIES. SOMETIMES EVEN THE MOST FOOLISH QUESTIONS RAISED COULD HOUSE IN ITSELF THE SOLUTION TO MANY PROBLEMS. WITH THIS, I WILL DRAW THE CURTAIN FOR THE DAY BUT BEFORE I LEAVE I WOULD LEAVE YOU WITH THIS ONE QUESTION 'DO YOU KNOW THE BOND THAT HOLDS ORION BOUND?'


     Thanks,
NESIMEYE .I. OSWALD
   Blog Author

Thursday 24 November 2011

THE WORLD IN CHAOS 1


             WISDOM SERIES
        
I
 believe almost everyone reading this article would agree with me that the present state of the world is what one can best describe as ‘an uproar in the system of things’. Everything is just going A-wire by the passing of each day and we call to mind the words of JESUS CHRIST at Mathew 24:5-7 . I mean look at the world’s economy at present and tell me what you can best describe it as. As for me, I would describe it as ‘A FAILING SYSTEM TENDING TO EVEN GREATER FAILURE’.I tell you that since the global economic meltdown in 2007, the world has never been the same. Companies had to reduce their payrolls and increase the names in their blacklists. Don’t blame them because it is no fault of theirs .they are just doing what is necessary if their firm must survive the hard times. Developed nations have recorded high level of poverty because almost every day, one person loses his/her job.      
     What has this failing economic system produced so far? Of course there should be an effect thus conforming to Newton’s third law of motion which states thus “to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”. In this case, a failing economic system is the action and if you ask me what the reaction is in this particular context, I would say that:
  • ·         Increasing numbers of unemployed people in the society.
  • ·         Increasing numbers of street dwellers {homeless people}.
  • ·         Increasing numbers of criminals because everyone is looking   for an escape route from poverty.
  • ·         Increasing numbers of rapists because an ‘idle/jobless mind they say is the devils  workshop'
  • ·         The suicide roll has made an impressive figure too. Figures of those who couldn’t bear the news of their zero account and a crumbled business which has taken them a lifetime to build.  
These are just few of the effects of our failing economic system. Even if you didn’t agree with my view of the world earlier on, I believe a look at these effects would open your eyes to what I see.
                                                                      to be continued…
                                                                             
         Thanks,
   NESIMEYE .I. OSWALD
      Blog author



 SOME INSPIRATIONAL WORDS TO SEE YOU       THROUGH YOUR DAY

 
THE WORDS OF THE GREAT PHILOSOPHER ARISTOTLE.

·         The high minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries     but to forget them.
·         Art is higher type of knowledge than experience.
·         Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
·         The secret of humor is surprise.
·         Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.  
·          No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madnes     
·        It is easy to perform a good action,but not easy to acquire a settle habit of performing such action.
·         Hope is a working dream.
·         The aim of  the wise is not to secure pleasure , but to avoid pain.
·         Most people would rather give than get affection.
·         The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.
·         For what is best choice for each individual is the highest impossible for him to achieve.
·         We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore is not an act, but a habit.



SUCCESS WORDS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

         .  Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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    .War  is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys state. it destroys families ,any scourge is preferable to it.
·       
         .  If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run ,walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; But by any means, keep moving.
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     .When you are right, you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
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      .We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together  as fools.
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             .  Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Thursday 17 November 2011

WE ARE WHO WE WANT TO BE

              WISDOM SERIES 

    
      You know life is funny, life is amusing, filled with all sorts of foolishness, ugliness, laziness, and bad qualities
but yet it is the very definition of beauty and wisdom itself.
        You know sometimes i begin to wonder why there are good and bad people, why there are moral and immoral people, why there
are wise and foolish people, why there are strong and weak people ,why there are hardworking and lazy people,
why there are rich and poor people, why some are masters and others are slaves. I mean why can't everyone be good?, why can't everyone
be moral?, why can't everyone be wise?, why can't everyone be strong?, why can't everyone be hardworking?, why can't everyone be rich?,
and why can't everyone be masters?.
        A walk down the path of my thoughts, I saw that true to me, everyone can be good, everyone can be moral, everyone can be wise
everyone can be strong,, everyone can be hardworking, everyone can be rich, and everyone can be masters of themselves. But I realized that
even this thought of mine is not practical. I mean if everyone becomes wise, then who will listen to who?, if everyone be good, then who will
be the vessel unto dishonor?,if everyone be moral,then who will make CNN's news headlines of crime,corruption, murderer,rapists and suicide
bombers?, if everyone be strong, won't everyday be a showdown?, if everyone becomes rich, then who will sleep on the streets and under the
bridges in the cold dark nights, if everyone becomes masters of themselves, then who will serve them?
       This thought of mine i guess is pratical enough. But even more practical is this one thing i know for sure
, "WE ARE WHO WE WANT TO BE". We can be good, bad, hardworking, lazy , rich, poor, wise , foolish, e.t.c. It all
depends on us.
       I mean, what stops me from becoming wise?, isn't it just a matter of decision and doing what needs to be done?
But even this simple question sometimes calls for rethink for people like me who tried to stand up on their feet
but yet failed many times. You know in those times, I thought about the drought ravaged children of the Sudan that
if they were given half the opportunity i was given, they would make greatness for themselves, yes i know poverty and disaster is not everyone's
idea of fun, but we would have to sometimes understand that "sorrow is the isle of transformation for the foolish minded one, there itself does wisdom lie.
      But in  the long run, i knew i was not foolish though i did some foolish things, i was not lazy thogh i slept like a sloth, it was just a matter of me
gathering some more strenght and strapping back up on my feet. Do you know why this is?, it is because i am who i want to become. So my readeres out there,
never forget this, "WE ARE WHO WE WANT TO BECOME".   

                                                
                                 10 INSPIRATIONAL WORDS TO SEE YOU THROUGH YOUR DAY
·         The problem of a man is the problem of most men so don't worry you are not alone.
·         If you can dream it , then you can  achieve it.
·         Impossibility is a word used only by a lazy man.
·         It is always possible for those who want it enough.
·         The universe is governed by laws, life involves applying the right laws to solve the problems before you.
·         With every dream comes a price to be paid and with every foolish action comes consequences.
·         The price for success is hard work.
·         The catalyst for success is determination.
·         Our limitations exists only in our thoughts.
·         I know there exists a niche in the plain of greatness for a little skinny child who lives in the valley of poverty but houses in him a dream far beyond his status.
      
                                                                                     Thanks,
                                                                               NESIMEYE .I. OSWALD