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22 definitions connected to the wisdom collection

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Consciousness

Consciousness is not only what sees; it is what recognises

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Knowledge

Knowledge becomes power only when understanding reaches practice

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Wisdom

Wisdom is the application of an understood truth to a particular life

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Time

Time is the irrecoverable currency exchanged for every human result

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Karma

Karma is not a sentence; it is the law of choice, consequence, and learning

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Lineage

Lineage is the living memory, structure, responsibility, and unfinished work carried through generations

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Soul

The soul is the principle that receives experience through a human form

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Energy

Energy is force gathered by attention and directed into action

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Faith

Faith is the ability to direct energy toward changing the material world

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Money

Money is a material form of value, exchange, gratitude, and freedom

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Freedom

Freedom is the ability to choose without being ruled by fear, habit, or dependence

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Legacy

Legacy is what continues to work after the original person and effort are gone

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Attention

Attention is the direction in which a person places the force of consciousness

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Experience

Experience is knowledge that has passed through a person and changed what they can do

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Practice

Practice is the passage through which knowledge becomes part of a life

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Body

The body is the instrument through which consciousness receives and expresses human experience

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Matter

Matter is the field in which an idea becomes visible, measurable, and consequential

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Work

Work is organised energy given a direction and made useful in the world

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Relationships

Relationships are the exchange of trust, energy, help, knowledge, and responsibility between people

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Culture

Culture is the living memory of what a community believes its activity is for

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Crisis

A crisis is the moment when an existing form reveals whether it can continue to carry life

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Change

Change is the permanent movement through which living systems remain capable of development