“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.”
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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
