Wisdom, or understanding, is not to be got at by holding on to things; holding on to your beliefs or ideas. Wisdom is born when you are really moving, not anchored to any particular form of belief.
After all, to understand truth, God, the unknown, or whatever name you care to give to it, mind and heart must come unprepared, insecure. In the vitality of insecurity, there is the eternal.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
~ Helen Keller (27 June 1880 – 1 June 1968)
