Extract from 100 Wisdom Wells. Your Invitation.
Wisdom belongs everywhere. Wisdom belongs to you. When we call for it, wisdom meets us, because wisdom recognises wisdom. I have spent this life digging in the dirt, thirsty—until I learned how to dig my Wisdom Well. Then I stood in wonder each day, watching the water of wisdom transform the dry, dead surface of my life into a garden. Wisdom has the power to do that. You see, wisdom is not words. Wisdom is not knowledge. Wisdom is your true seeing and true being. It lives behind the words. It sends its gifts through words, or art, or silence, like carrier waves of healing. Wisdom loves like that. Wisdom doesn’t only belong to saints and sages, or on dusty ancient shelves. Wisdom belongs in the grit and grime, in the raw and the real. It belongs in busy minds, and in hearts stretched by suffering. Wisdom moves like that. Wisdom doesn’t ask us to believe. Wisdom doesn’t divide. It invites us to see for ourselves. To look deep enough until we see our shared being and seeing looking back. Wisdom unifies like that. I am so grateful for the wisdom that nourishes me each day, meeting my doubt with kind knowing, strengthening the song of wholeness, and giving me back to myself. I’ll offer you metaphors and stories—an invitation to see through my eyes, so that you might discover the wonder of this for yourself. A thousand Wisdom Wells all draw from the same clear water. We paint our buckets differently. We translate into different words. Some days, we use wisdom for healing. Other days, for celebrating. But water recognises water. Perhaps, like me, you hear wisdom singing a call to freedom. Perhaps, like me, your soul is tired of feeling the pain of a planet imprisoned by thirst. Perhaps, like me, you also dream of a world awake, free from the suffering of fighting over buckets full of sand, free of building forts around defended surface identities. When all the while, what we seek is just beneath the surface. Let’s discover what we share, what belongs to us all equally.