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How do you define wisdom and spiritual growth?

What's your definition of personal development?

From the lens Spiritual Growth Definition: What is Wisdom?.

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  • micah May 17, 2012 @ 4:25 pm | delete
    wisdom-is the ability to change your life around and show people how u did change yor life aroud and to be honest and truthful
  • Comptrainer Apr 17, 2012 @ 6:48 pm | delete
    Development is beyond the body. The body is critical to growth, but so is constant growth of the mind, spirit and the body achievements (not getting fatter and fatter, but health body goals and successes). The person never stops developing and in my opinion most likely still develops in ways God knows after the mortal death.
  • Oct 28, 2011 @ 12:10 am | delete
    Wisdom - the ability to know what knowledge is to be applied to a given situation.
  • sponias Aug 4, 2011 @ 2:45 pm | delete
    Wisdom is sensibility and sensitivity at the same time.
  • MalcolmH May 28, 2011 @ 2:09 am | delete
    Wisdom is a complex quality. At its heart is the idea of pursuing the best ends by the best means, but modern society often choosesthe best means without worrying about ends. If something is technically possible, we do it regardless of the consequences. We pursue economic efficiency and growth without asking why these are important, or right, or help us get what we really want.

    Reason and factual knowledge contribute to wisdom, but need to be integrated with intuition and spiritual knowledge, tempered by a moral sense of what is right and of value.

    Wisdom often emerges through asking the right questions, rather than finding the right answers. Wise decisions may redefine our ideas of right and wrong.

    To the ancient Greeks, to be wise was to love harmony, beauty and truth, to know yourself, and strive for moral perfection. Thus the wise person is balanced, integrated and whole; self-aware and in harmony with him- or herself; empathic, understanding, patient, compassionate and humorous; able to learn from mistakes, and not afraid to change their minds. They weigh the evidence and make clear, sensible and fair judgements that take account of both the short and long term.

    For a more detailed discussion of wisdom, see my book "The Science of Oneness: A worldview for the twenty-first century." A summary can be found at http://www.humansolutionsnow.com/science-and-spirituality/about-the-science-of-oneness/overview-of-the-science-of-oneness/
  • Pain Shwe U Apr 24, 2011 @ 7:44 am | delete
    Wisdom is perfection of knowledge and spiritual growth take place through the practice of wisdom.
  • susangale Apr 24, 2011 @ 7:29 am | delete
    Wisdom and spiritual growth are how we come to know the truth of our relationship with Creator. It is how we learn to walk with Creator and all our relations as well.
  • MarkUpshaw Oct 11, 2010 @ 2:06 am | delete
    Spiritual growth can be measured only be the individual and is the ability to see the best in yourself and others despite appearances. Wisdom is knowing what is your best choice at every decision and comes from knowledge, love and intuition.
  • mcochs Oct 5, 2010 @ 2:50 pm | delete
    To me spiritual growth means getting closer to God.
  • Oct 1, 2010 @ 9:59 pm | delete
    Wisdom is the collective knowledge of your life experiences, so a person is only as wise as the life that they have experienced, and the acceptance that life will happen weather you like it or not. Spiritual growth is accepting these things and still going on in life with a smile on your face.
  • iflo Jun 26, 2009 @ 11:21 am | delete
    to me spiritual growth means to identify more and more with God , letting go of life, the fact that you exist or not and choosing love and truth all the way. The growth is infinite, but limited when still identifying with this body.
  • FreeSpiritSoars Apr 9, 2009 @ 9:02 pm | delete
    Wisdom is knowing that you don't know everything. The spiritual growth part involves scraping off all the dirty layers of life's experience that have helped you forget who you truly are. Returning to the joy of living as you experienced as a very young child while still having the experience of life's seeming inequities today is part of this growth.

    Wisdom is discovering Squidoo and all the cool people here.
  • julcal Mar 8, 2009 @ 11:45 am | delete
    For me, spiritual growth is learning more about who i was before i got distorted by the influences of being an in individual on the face of the earth. Before conception I was in unity. In the womb I was in unity with mother. So stepwise, necessary separation with the universe begins in order to individuate. As a two year old I start to demand separation and as a teenager I rebeled to gain separation. Eventually I have forget who I really am = neurosis. Now I crave to know but it's so hard to see because I live in my complexes. It requires very deep work to see who is really at the steering wheel. Luckily, the unconscious WANTS to be known. With depth work, dream work, meditation, setting up a dialogue with our unconscious, watching our complexes at work objectively, slowly but surely, just as we separated from unity, we can re-connect with who we were born to be and and feel FREE!! :) :) :) GRRREAT lens! 5* FAV facebook, twitter, you name it!
  • Daphne from Conscious Decisions Mar 1, 2009 @ 8:01 pm | delete
    It's having the strength and courage to discover what your true purpose is, and to be able to unleash your energy to fulfill your life's obligation.
  • boshemia Jan 9, 2009 @ 7:36 am | delete
    For me it means learning to "harm not others and harm not myself," it means celebrating life, all life as being sacred. It means striving to learn from my enemies and my friends alike.
  • AwakenYourSpirit Dec 9, 2008 @ 3:48 pm | delete
    For me it is a lifelong experience of continuing to discover more and more of my true nature.
  • Tim Aug 26, 2008 @ 4:21 am | delete
    I would ask the vital question "Who is it that needs to grow - spiritually or otherwise?" Is the "you" that needs to grow a concept or thought? Do you really exists as an entity at all?
  • DrBruceKing Aug 25, 2008 @ 8:40 pm | delete
    Accessing you hyper-dimensional consciousness. Magnetic Pill
  • jaktraks Aug 11, 2008 @ 6:21 pm | delete
    For me, spiritual growth has had a lot to do with grounding myself in everyday life. I'd prefer to have my head in the clouds but apparently I require roots as well. And thank you so much for featuring one of my lenses.
  • Joan4 Aug 3, 2008 @ 2:38 pm | delete
    Spiritual growth, for me, is always a lesson in love - who am I critizing? why am I fault-finding? trying to stay in a loving place even when I feel angry. Removing from myself anything that allows me to criticize or grumble about another human being. That's a full time job! Spiritual growth is a process! for sure!
  • AnnRadley Jul 14, 2008 @ 8:33 pm | delete
    I am amazed at the breadth of ideas you cover and refer to. What is spiritual growth? I can't say what it is, just a little of what it is not. It is not wallowing in the past, or worrying about the future. And it is connected I think with staying 'in your body' which has a tranformative power.
  • ArtSiren Jul 13, 2008 @ 8:01 am | delete
    Nice lens! The 'acceptance' part is a struggle for me. I would cite the famed story of Edison and his 10,000 attempts at creating a working lightbulb. Perhaps Edison's wisdom was in realising that 'he hadn't failed 10000 times; he had succeeded in finding 10000 ways that wouldn't work. And having found the ways that won't work, it was inevitable that he'd find the way that would!'

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