Wisdom?

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Wisdom?


Thoughts are a part of our everyday existence: without thought could we achieve wisdom? As I had stated in an earlier essay, ‘Wisdom is the thought and experiences of every man, woman and child.’ Also, I believe wisdom to be knowledge righteously applied. Through thought we encourage self-formulated answers, or imagination, an element that can externalize the soul. I may find the answers to universal questions if my own brain participates in the creation of the circle in which I might find it. The key to every person’s wisdom is in his or her thought process. I still believe in the quest for wisdom to be derived through our thoughts and life’s encounters. My view has changed in accordance to wisdom in that, even when faced with an uncertain ‘WHY’ we can seek meaning and bear with almost any ‘HOW’. After reading Victor Frankl’s book, Mans Search for Meaning, I could associate with the practices that I use in my own life. After going through a painful divorce, I asked the question ‘WHY?’ a thousand times or more. It wasn’t until I stopped asking why and looked at what I could learn from this experience that would make my life better. I was determined that when one door closed another door opened. Frankl helped me change my views in broadening my ideas about thought and what to do with those thoughts.

That leads me to discuss how impressed I am with the philosophy of Victor Frankl. I truly believe in the aspects of existentialism and in its division known as Logotherapy. Through this belief that suffering and tragedy can be turned into triumph. When we can not change situations we then need to find ways to change ourselves. In this belief of Logotherapy, existentialism stands out for me. Frankl suggest using existentialism in three ways, 1) to refer to existence itself, 2) the meaning of existence; and 3) striving to find a concrete meaning in personal existence, that is to say, the ...