I usually refer to that active knowing within as wisdom. But in a conversation with a colleague the other day she spontaneously referred to it as a person’s God given intelligence. As those words left her lips both of us felt their impact and realised the depth of what she had just uttered.

God given …. not some isolated faculty, one that is divinely gifted. We are not isolated, we are connected via a power greater than our physical beings and we remain connected throughout our lives. This realisation led to a bigger discussion about love, about a power bursting with so much love that it could not contain the impulse to  share it. Wisdom … God given intelligence … Love.

In the Three Principles material, wisdom is also referred to as common sense. In general, the senses are usually referred to as our way of perceiving and navigating the physical world. But common sense is something different. It is a sense we have in common, it is a sense that enables us to perceive the oneness that flows through all of us, it is the sense that enables us to perceive wisdom … the intelligence that a greater power streams through all of us.

Listen to that intelligence and you jump the boundaries of time. Listen to that intelligence and you don’t have to wait for hindsight to gain wisdom. Listen to that intelligence and you gain wisdom immediately. I once knew a man who had a friendship that did not serve him well. The friend undermined this man’s family life and his words contributed to the dissolution of this man’s marriage. A decade of experience with this friend later, the man could see what he had ignored a decade earlier and ended the friendship. The sad part is that wisdom was knocking on his thinking all those years ago but he ignored it. He ignored it and then needed a decade more of chaos before he accepted wisdom’s words. Because wisdom (the formless) is always coming up against our formed thinking – an operating system devoid of acknowledgement of gifted Divine intelligence. It is the repository of original sin – an absence of awareness. But once we wake up to the very real presence of wisdom streaming through us everything changes. As we listen to it we no longer need so much painful experience in order to learn, we jump the boundaries of time.

In listening for wisdom, in listening to wisdom and acting upon it, (a) we loosen up the formed thinking by which we have lived, we change our level of consciousness, and (b) we are no longer bound to live our formed thinking out so that we may change. Wisdom can be gained through physical world experience, or it can be gained through listening to the divinely gifted intelligence that runs through us all.  All we have to do is wake up to Wisdom’s presence and the journey within begins.