Wisdom’s Ancient Wells

Wells of wisdom;
how many are there,
only one?

Or

One for each culture
civilization
creed or
persuasion?

How many ‘truths’
are there?

Only one?

Who decides?
“Whichever interpretation
prevails at a given time
is a function of power
and not truth.” –Nietzsche

Does it not benefit us
to reexamine,
rethink our sources,
our fundamentals,
from time to time,
a healthy skepticism to
help avoid the
entropy of hubris?

As the old Taoist saying
suggests concerning the
undefinable dao or ultimate truth/s,
‘those who know don’t say and
those who say don’t know’.

So which ‘power’
defines doubt or
skepticism as a negative?

Skepticism is essential on
the road to wisdom’s wells,
initiated by nagging doubts,
large or small, tickling the back
corners of the mind.

Creates positively skeptical
tastebuds sipping
from widom’s wells…

Should we not be
skeptics, listening to the
‘wisdom’ of any ‘guru’,
and all self or establishment
proclaimed speakers
or masters of the
ancient wells
of wisdom?

PS: So, do we choose our own path/s, or is that the delusion of least resistance? I suspect that anyone who truly thinks about it either knows or strongly intuits the ‘truth’…

–LE