Let me expand a bit on that word wisdom, as I see it. Wisdom is not the notion of absolute congruence between first and second attention. There is great deal to be said in favor of a healthy amount of conflict. At first attention (conscious) there seems to be a leaning toward the absolute, the generalization, and that is one way of functioning. At second attention, well, to put it simply, as conscious minds like to do, there is everything else. We cannot run our lives only from a first attention point of view that tends to be more interested in the immediate. Nor can we run our lives from a second attention point of view where, if we go to the right place, there is no perception of time and space. It's only when we begin to learn how to experience first and second attention as a cooperative meaningful relationship, one that holds an acceptable amount of healthy conflict, can we even begin to touch a place called wisdom. This is the place where I experience you from time to time.

I was thinking of how to best let you know where I am coming from, yet I couldn't quite put into words. I tried, and tried but to no avail. I asked my unconscious to find a way to communicate my center, the place I operate out of, and to communicate it in a way that you could perhaps glean some other than conscious meaning from. Well, what follows is the result. And please, let me know if I have been even remotely effective in my desires here.