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THE PARADOX OF WISDOM & FUTURE PLANNING

BEAM, inc
10 min readFeb 23, 2022

In my many trips around the sun, I have learned that life rejoices in the paradoxical.

While there are many examples of life playing the game of paradox with us, there are two that occupy my thinking, especially — the paradox of Wisdom that guides us in the present and Planning that guides us in the future.

WISDOM

The wisest of insights are often wonderfully paradoxical…

To receive more love, give more love

We can dream of a future world only when we can see the reality of Now.

There is only one uniquely you… and you are only one among billions of others interconnected in one consciousness.

“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human” — David Abrams, ecologist and author

All of our knowledge is of the past and all of our decisions are about the future.

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu

Lao Tsu

PLANNING

”The hallmark of wisdom is asking —

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