What do we want to be
There are two allied powers in man: Knowledge and Wisdom. Knowledge is so much of the truth, seen in distorted medium, as the mind arrives at by grouping; Wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit ….. What men call knowledge is reasoned acceptance of false appearance, WISDOM LOOKS BEHIND THE VEIL AND SEES … Reason divides, fixes details and contrasts them, Wisdom unifies, marries contrasts in a single harmony.
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Knowledge worker (KW) |
Wisdom Worker (WW) |
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A KW tends to follow a hectic life-pattern. He is usually a roamer.
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A WW tends to evolve an internal life-pattern. He can also soar. |
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A KW thinks all knowledge is objective. |
A WW feels all knowledge is finally subjective.
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A KW is driven primarily by the urge to control the external environment and other persons. |
A WW’s primary focus is on control of himself; control or influence over others is in proportion to control over himself.
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A KW is usually egoistic, but not normally and truly effective in performance. |
A WW is usually humble, as also truly effective in performance.
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A KW is commonly very rights-conscious |
A WW is prone to be much more duty conscious
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A KW tends to think he can be so only by steering clear of all traditional wisdom |
A WW believes he can so only by sincerely assimilating the core of traditional wisdom
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A KW tends at the most towards ‘enlightened’ self-interest |
A WW tends more often to subordinate his apparent self-interest for wider and bigger interests
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A KW views life and progress linearly |
A WW views life and progress cyclically
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A KW trades in obsolescence |
A WW in durability
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A KW tends to dominate and exploit Nature as a resource |
A WW befriends and embraces Nature with adoration as a partner in his life-scheme
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A KW tends to be carried away by intellectual pyrotechnics |
A WW rests on trans-intellectual base of steadiness
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