Quantum Exposed: Wresting Color from the Canvas; 7

This 'House Rule' and others can be found in Dan Millman's book Living on Purpose. I accredit all direct quotations regarding the House Rules to Dan Millman. The subsequent lay analysis is mine. I want to be clear on one thing: I am not being paid to convey the information contained herewith. My intention is to use the concepts contained herewith to give my more ambitious readers, including myself, a Universal Law on which to reflect daily.

1. Earth is a school and daily life is our classroom
2. Our teachers come in many forms
3. We learn best through direct experience
4. Failures are the stepping stones to success
5. Lessons reappear until we learn them
6. If we don’t learn the easy lessons, they get harder
7. Consequences teach better than concepts

The difference between knowledge and wisdom is that knowledge is latent. Wisdom allows us to experience things on every level. Knowledge is knowing how to brush your teeth. Wisdom is doing it. Concepts in and of themselves really mean nothing to us and arouse all but certainty. As children, we have the understanding that putting our hand on a hot stove will give us a booboo.

Parent A: "Don't you touch that stove, booboo."
Parent B: "Go ahead, touch it, see what happens."

Before we touched it for the first time, we didn't know any better. The second time we did it, we did, because it hurt like hell the first time. An extreme comparison, perhaps, but after putting my hand on a hot stove a number of times, I connected the dots...very painful ones.

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