The Proverbs are all about wisdom and folly: the infinite beauty of wisdom, and the tragic foolishness of folly. Perhaps this is one of the biggest lessons we have to learn, and self-changes we have to make. Once "in the Truth," few of us are in great danger of what we would call "wickedness"; but ALL of us are naturally very, very prone to folly. It takes many forms. All natural thinking is folly.

Anything light or childish or silly or "funny" or selfish or unkind or fleshly or worldly -- in short, anything below the ideal level to which we strive, of perfect unity and harmony with the Divine Mind -- is folly. May God in His love grant us the inestimable blessing of increasingly perceiving and overcoming our follies and growing out of them -- up and into full spiritual wisdom and maturity.

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