This is http://www.essayz.com/a9006202.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %TECHNOCRATIC SOPHISTICATED SIMPLE CHILDLIKE WISDOM 900620 The essence of wisdom is not to be found in sophistication, technical complexity, systematics, experts, power, formality, respectability, threats, force, coercion, violence, or war. The essence of wisdom is often found in association with simplicity, spontaneity, intuition, weakness, informality, poverty, humility, authenticity, gentleness, children and true conflict resolution. The essence of wisdom is often found in people who are recovering from addiction and codependence and all that they entail. The essence of wisdom is not often found in addicts or codependents who refuse to be honest about who they are and who they are becoming. The essence of wisdom is not often found in the instructional training of sophisticated researchers and/or scholars. The essence of wisdom is not often found in politicians who are more concerned with the exercise of power than with personal and communal integrity. The essence of wisdom is not often found in people who are compulsively preoccupied with definitions of good and evil; and/or with who is good and who is evil. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================