by

Leo Crocker Rogers

There are those who are so smart that it hurts the rest of us to be in their company. The smart ones are much needed people. They score very high on the SW scale, the Smarts to Wisdom scale. With all their smarts, memory, and quick thinking, their Smarts-to-Wisdom ratio could be a very outstanding 80 to 20.

Interestingly, this opens a niche for the rest of us who are less studied, have only average or poor memory, or take a bit longer to understand the subtleties of some jokes, the ramifications of political posturings, and the consequences of complex legal documents.

Fortunately, there is only one source of wisdom, and that is the Divine Mind. The source is not our cultivated brain. It is our cultivated listening. Thus, by our listening, we can have a Smarts to Wisdom ratio of 20 to 80. See the 80?

The smarts can do the heavy lifting of mankind, and the wise can guide them.

Is this easy? Sure, like herding siamese cats. Ah, but a wise man once said, "Give me a hungry cat and a fish, and even the fish can lead the cat."

And so here we are. The smarts said just 10 years ago that the moon of the earth was even drier than they thought possible. Today, the new smarts are saying that there are billions of gallons of water on the earth’s moon. That is the way with the smarts of the world, right is what is before their eyes – which can change and does change from time to time.

In contrast, wisdom from the Divine Mind is always right. Divine wisdom is even more right than the US Marine Corps recruit who says, "I am never wrong. I may not always be right. But I am never wrong."

There is room for us all, both smarts and wise. For what there is not room is neither.