Wisdom and stillness. In this podcast, Ed Cart talks with a live audience about

the importance of wisdom. He says the first step is acknowledging the magnitude

of what we don't know. He encourages us to step out of our thinking mind with

its relentless judgments and interpretations and step into what he calls

aware stillness. It's there that we have access to a deeper intelligence. One

connected to our higher purpose to realize our oneness with the totality of the

universe. I don't know if you remember reading about Socrates, Greek philosopher,

who never wrote anything. He just talked and Plato was one of his disciples

wrote about what Socrates said when he was asked why does the Oracle of Delphi

call you the wisest of all men? He said the reason why I'm the wisest of all men

is that I'm the only one who knows that he knows nothing. Not many people

actually have understood over the centuries what I see as the deeper meaning of

those words. Mostly it's interpreted as pretending not to know feigning

modesty which is a disguised form of ego. It's like saying I'm the most

egoless person of all. I'm the most egoless person of all. Nobody's more egoless than me,

that's for sure. I'm the only one who knows that he knows nothing. I suggest it's

not feigned modesty. There's a deeper meaning and the deeper meaning is that all

his extremely creative teachings, you might know that the teachings all are

used to teaching form of dialogues with people. So they would ask him questions

and then he would ask him questions and finally the teaching emerged out of the

dialogue and often he showed that the original premise that somebody started

with is erroneous but it gradually emerges. So I'm the only one who knows that

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