Wisdom's Seven Pillars - Pillar #7 Higher Source

Pillar #7 Higher Source

“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Each of us is born with the potential for the unfolding of our true self. When you deviate from the truth, you are interfering with the intention of something greater than you are - call it nature or a higher power. As a result, you develop discomfort.”
- Unknown

Not wanting to use religious cliche's and forms makes this last pillar difficult to describe. The idea is that wisdom must have a source greater than it's form in my life to appeal to. Some have called it a “higher power”, a philosophy, a teacher, a leader, or any number of nomenclatures, all referring to the idea that someone or something has the power to inspire me to greater wisdom. Isolation cannot be tolerated, though it is useful for growth, to be wisdom in fact, it must be exercised in real life scenarios. I can be wise on my own, but let an argument start between my brother and I, and watch as the heat of emotion tests the weaknesses of that which I found in solitude. The two must work together, wisdom hammered out on my own, but submitted to another higher source, tested outside of my safe zone. A higher source exists, it behooves you to find it, appeal to it, and listen to it.

Pillar #1 - Humility; Pillar #2 - Peace; Pillar #3 - Seriousness; Pillar #4 - Quietness;
Pillar #5 Mercy; Pillar #6 - Easily Entreated; Pillar #7 - Higher Source (http://www.opinionsofeye.com/2012/03/wisdoms-seven-pillars-pillar-7-high...)