They Knew They Were Wise

To walk a path of wisdom is…

Regia Marinho
2 min readOct 7, 2024
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They knew they were wise.

The weight of those words implies a reverence for knowledge, experience, and wisdom passed down over generations.

When we say “they knew”, it suggests an inheritance of understanding from those who walked the path before us.

The elders, the ancestors, the sages — they had already grappled with the great questions and learned difficult lessons through the long journey of life.

To be wise is to have integrated that hard-won knowledge, to have developed a profound grasp of the patterns that underlie our existence.

The wise ones don’t just accumulate information, but develop a deeper intuitive feel for the fundamental truths.

They can see beneath the surface the qualities of the essential nature of things.

When a culture refers to “they knew, they were wise”, it’s an acknowledgment that their current Way has been profoundly shaped by those who have already spent lifetimes uncovering insights.

It’s a humble recognition that the path has been developed over eons, earned through innumerable human experiences and distilled parables.

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Regia Marinho

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