If you do nothing else with your life, learn how to learn.

You have been taught how not to learn.  You have been taught how to
compile data, but you have not learned how to learn.

There are three descending levels of Knowledge:

Wisdom

Understanding

General Knowledge or Know-How

The level of general knowledge is the level of know-how and technical
knowledge.  It can be as simple as knowing how to tie one's shoes or as
complicated as rocket science, but it is no more than the compiling,
collating and disseminating of data.

The second level is higher.  Here one understands the meaning of the
data that one has compiled, understands the moment of it, appreciates
the value of it, considers it with awe and knows how to apply it for
the good.

Wisdom is the ability to see into the Soul of matter. There is not much
to say about this level of Knowledge because it is the substrate from
which all mathematics and linguistics proceed, therefore it does not
avail itself of description.  It is That which is caught, not taught.

I have said that the levels of Knowledge above are in descending order.
They also encompass and contain one another.  When one has Wisdom, one
has Understanding and knows the basis of General Knowledge.  It does
not work in reverse.  One may be a rocket scientist, a physicist, a
physician, but not understand the data at all and be a wholly unwise
person.

Most of the people here are stuck on the lowest level of General
Knowledge.  Do not be fooled by their claims to being committed to
verification by empirical proofs and their loyal to "science". No
matter how high-falutin' this sounds, it exists on the lowest rung of
cognition. They understand very little and are not wise people.

Do not trust your health, which derives from your Soul in the hands of
those who know not the Soul of the world.

When you meet a person like this, if there is Wisdom within you, you
will know them.  You will resonate with them.  They will reach you on
the deepest levels of your being. They will not attempt to teach you by
browbeating or by insults or by appeals to authority. They will be
gentle in touching your mind and your Spirit.  They will not trample on
your Humanity and your dignity. They will teach by example, and not
demand that you believe them and accept everything they say.

VP