Becoming Wise

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages is you’ve been. – Madelyn L’Engle

Life is a progression. We are a work in progress and an accumulation of experiences. Everything that has previously occurred in our lives has happened for a reason and is an essential part of our development. One of the challenges of our lives is to integrate and absorb the pieces of our lives as we experience them. It is sometimes tempting to try to deny difficult periods of our lives or put out of our minds significant events, especially if they have been painful or unflattering. When we try to erase or re-write our past we deprive ourselves of our own hard-earned wisdom.

When we realize that some of our most valuable strengths have developed not in spite of, but because of the life experiences we have had; then we can begin to fully appreciate the depth and breadth of the wise person we have become.

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