Universal Student

This is helpful! I am spending some energy digesting all of what you have shared here before I formulate ideas about these words of advice.

Agreed that self inquiry is an important step for how can we recognize cognitive dissonance. To question is to open the windows to being wrong, which ...

Agreed. To recognize the usefulness of a thing, through interaction and exchange. To experience and thus learn.

Maybe the point is preciously that we are tempted by them? How could virtue exist, without the opportunity to restrain from temptation of the correspo...

Dormant perhaps, to be awakened and brought forth into potential. If something exists presently, then it has always existed and always will, in some f...

"Reveals" implies that the virtue was always there, within the wisdom.

I think that my meaning is that an authentic quality of virtue is true.

I think that courage has a relationship with fear and resistance to change. I myself am still learning the truth and meaning of this word as I approac...

This is an interesting and useful analogy. Thank you for sharing.

My perspective is that aspects of wisdom are a threshold that once reached, resonate within the soul in such an way that virtue naturally will follow....

In my lived experience thus far, I have learned that wisdom comes from understanding and virtue follows as naturally as rivers stream into the ocean.T...

The same subatomic particles that make up the cosmos and the billions of years of earth evolution have come together to create the perfect conditions ...

Interesting. Thank you for the reply. Bringing society into it gives me some things to digest.

This is a simple and useful way of looking at opposing positions. Thank you for sharing. It seems like if we approach arguments from a space of willin...

Thank you. This brings clarity! Instead of shifts in perspective which re-enforce circular patterns and loops that leave no wiggle room for change or ...

Your consideration in reply is appreciated. Would you say that we are shaping one another in the processes towards revealing fundamental principles an...

What is "wrong" and how does one define and measure this idea against what is "right", which is another idea to grasp. Are these positions perspective...