Who are your wise people?

They’re not easy to find, being courageous and generous, refusing to tell us what we want to hear or what’s popular.  Connecting from their heart, they don’t so much tell as do.

If I don’t put into practice what I discover and know, I’m not wise.  If I give up when the going gets tough, this too means I’m not wise.

I’ve noticed how wise people do not set out to change me, but live true to who they are … creating a “field of possibilities” when they do.  They know who they are and what they have, and what they want to do.

They also know they haven’t got everything necessary for this, but they know someone else will bring what they are lacking, including what they need to learn:

‘It’s not the lack of resources but the lack of resourcefulness that most people suffer from.’*

And the wise keep searching until they find these people.

They know living better is not about huge leaps but turning up and honouring the small things, every day: the only place the past and the future meet.

Wise people don’t know, wise people do.

‘Remember – the secret isn’t in the knowing, the secret is in the doing.’*

(*From Michael Heppell’s How to Be Brilliant.)
(The cartoon developed from a line in Seth Godin’s blog for today.)