Amerika

The wise man was always wise.
He simply didn’t know it.

Many people specialize in labeling other people ‘stupid’.
This is a very odd phenomenon, but it must be a way to allow the stupid people, to feel less stupid, themselves.
The stupid man has this characteristic outlook:
If he hears, or reads, something he does not already know, or understand, he deems it ‘stupid’.
Whereas the wise man, hearing, or reading, something he does not already know, or understand, considers it as if it were true, and thus arrives at a considered knowledge, or understanding, of whatever it is he has heard, or read.
He investigates. He lets it be. He considers. And sees if it might be true.

The wise man says things that many have not heard before.
This is the nature of wisdom: few have heard of it.
If they have, then it is not wisdom, but general knowledge.
The wise man seeks to convert wisdom to general knowledge, yet in his wisdom, understands that this is not likely to happen.

Wisdom is paradoxical. True yet not-true.
True to those that can accept it. Not-true to those who can not.

The wise man is familiar with The Divine.
Not because he understands it, but because, for him, it clearly exists.
His own wisdom is proof of that.

The stupid man denies The Divine.
Not because it does not exist, but because it does not exist, for him.
And not-existing, for him, there can be nothing else, but him.
Therefore The Divine can not exist, if he can not perceive it.

The wise man perceives.
This is the root of his wisdom.
The stupid man does not.
This is the root of his stupidity.
Thus the stupid man is able to label others ‘stupid’.

The wise man lives a life beyond the boundaries of stupid/not-stupid.
The stupid man does not.
Stupid/not-stupid defines the stupid man’s life.
Thus he is right: The Divine does not exist.

Yet the wise man inhabits a life that is suffused with The Divine.
It would not occur to him to question it.
He is right, too: The Divine exists.

The wise man is made more, by his acceptance.
The stupid man is made less by his non-acceptance.
Thus the stupid man is able to label the wise man ‘stupid’.
While the wise man is not troubled by this.

The wise man is stupid.
The stupid man, wise.
This is the truth, for the stupid man.

The wise man is content.
The stupid man is not.
This is the truth, for the wise man.

The wise man would spread contentment.
The stupid man would spread discontent.
This truth is common to both.

You may be the one, you may be the other.
You may even be the one, and the other.
All at the same time.