Classic Catholic Meditations - Mary, the Seat of Wisdom, can help you understand divine things
July 30, 2024
While reading this medication the subject of acquiring knowledge and wisdom is discussed. The idea of expanding one's understanding and knowledge of the abstract is addressed. Stated in the meditation is that,
"many of the greatest have dispensed with books, taught by their own minds and the stimulus of conversation and discussion with congenial, although opposingly-minded, friends".
This I believe is an area that is all but forgotten and or looked on negatively. Rather than making use of opposing opinions and conversation with those of opposing view as a path for learning and expanding one's mind, we take such interaction as hostile and offensive.
“In the sacred knowledge of God, it is, above all, obvious that we require instruction rather than books, a master rather than a library. But there is also, again, the necessity for a certain amount of intelligence on our part. Said Dr. Johnson on a famous occasion, I can supply you with arguments, but not with the wit to understand them.”