The Wise Life

For a wise life, first of all, it is necessary to have a proper opinion on the truth. In order that wise people can sustain their existence among us, there must be a truth that is allied on and conformed to it. Essentially, to be human means to have a particular point of view about the truth. The wise is the person who has a particular attitude concerning the truth. He lives according to his ideas of the truth. These ideas are not just temporary things for the wise person; because they are knots in his mind and heart and determine his understanding of truth, reality and his way of life. Therefore, the ideas deeply determine the direction in which internal and external transformations will take place. The truth encompasses the wise person both from internally (by ideas) and from externally (by behaviors). Moreover he lives with the truth. In addition, wise people make reality visible through their existential boundaries. A person who is not a wise man is, even if he knows to some extent what is truth is, in fact, ignorant of the truth; because the truth surrounds him neither from the inside nor from the outside. As a matter of fact, whether a person is wise or not is determined by the qualities (life, knowledge, will, power, speech, generosity, justice) that govern him/her. If these qualities develop in an unstable and incompatible manner; arrogant, stingy, cowardly or horny, unbalanced persons will emerge. It can be easily argued that knowledge of wisdom is not just a theoretical effort but a knowledge that gives spiritual qualities (such as unity and integrity) to the person who seeking it. While pure rational knowledge is directed at persuading a person intellectual, wisdom is oriented to make a moral-existential transformation in person. Indeed, it is not possible to be wise without a spiritual transformation. A wise sees the knowledge as a means of attaining spiritual qualities and salvation; not as a means of obtaining domination and benefit. In a wise life, there is an unbreakable connection between knowing and being. We can not fulfill the duty of being human, unless we open up the attributes that exist in our being as much as possible. In addition, wisdom is the establishment of a harmony between both soul-body, human-nature, and God-man. Wisdom requires us to see the world as a symbol, not as a crude fact, and to discover the meaning that it carries. It can be said that, in one sense, wisdom is to explore the representative meaning of existing things. This is to see human beings and nature as levels of existence that reflect each other on the