Ene
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Power is fragile, changeable, impermanent. It fades or gets overthrown. It's a deception.
Intelligence is only the capacity to learn, not necessarily the wisdom to know what to do with the knowledge once you've gained it. It is only as good as the amount of wisdom that accompanies it. Intelligence does not equate to wisdom and understanding. Without these, intelligence is empty.
Beauty is objective and it's fleeting. Everybody gets old or else dies young, so either way, the beauty fades [not referring to inner beauty or beauty of nature here though]
Love...not romance...what the Greeks referred to as Eros...but rather brotherly love and/or agape love...never fails and even death can't annul its affects.
So, if I had to choose just one...I'd choose love. But I would rather say...
....seek truth, gain wisdom, nurture understanding and live according to the principles of brotherly love...treat others the way you wish they would treat you, and then power won't seem like such an issue and intelligence will be recognized in all of its forms.
Intelligence is only the capacity to learn, not necessarily the wisdom to know what to do with the knowledge once you've gained it. It is only as good as the amount of wisdom that accompanies it. Intelligence does not equate to wisdom and understanding. Without these, intelligence is empty.
Beauty is objective and it's fleeting. Everybody gets old or else dies young, so either way, the beauty fades [not referring to inner beauty or beauty of nature here though]
Love...not romance...what the Greeks referred to as Eros...but rather brotherly love and/or agape love...never fails and even death can't annul its affects.
So, if I had to choose just one...I'd choose love. But I would rather say...
....seek truth, gain wisdom, nurture understanding and live according to the principles of brotherly love...treat others the way you wish they would treat you, and then power won't seem like such an issue and intelligence will be recognized in all of its forms.