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of saints and sages on illiteracy

On a day like today, 4 October, marks the day of San Francisco Assisi, the son of a wealthy merchant of the city in his youth, decided to live in the strictest poverty, who opened his heart to cultivate love, faith, charity and above all hope. This day is really great holiday and even be used as a reference when Pope Gregory XIII went into effect Gregorian Calendar, back in 1582 in the Catholic world. In addition, the city of Assisi, say those who have had the good fortune to visit, it's magic and every breath of air you breathe, you feel peace and harmony that can only be felt in places that have been blessed by the same nature, that to which St. Francis devoted much of his strength, and as ahead of time, be perceived in each of our ecosystem, inert or alive, a brother and like sang Atahualpa Yupanqui, had many siblings who could not tell.

Educated people are not necessarily educated, and education and culture are essential for wisdom, but not enough. Of ignorance, with a large dose of education, a person can become educated, if it is also intelligent, can be cultured, erudite and wise and if it has a higher spirituality, can be enlightened. We remember the seven sages of antiquity and, not incidentally, came from Greece, the cradle of Western civilization and supports the popular adage: " All peoples have the saints, the Greeks have learned ." The same happens in the east, somewhat isolated from our environment, but it certainly has great wisdom, his philosophy and cosmogony magnifies the virtues of patience and tolerance.

But sometimes wisdom is found in the same simplicity, in some cases a short and very deep, have managed to avoid the time and neglect and provides for scholars can speak at length, for example, " Know thyself ", found in the temple of Apollo at Delphi and attributed to Thales of Miletus , and" just know that I know nothing "of Socrates, who in the name of truth accepts his own death by swallowing hemlock, a fact which somehow resembles the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross. " Expect the unexpected. accept the unacceptable "and" Study the past to predict the future "of Confucius ," The man who can not speak, the man who speaks does not know "of Lao Tse, or" I think, therefore I am "of Descartes gave to immortalize their authors in that age of wisdom, but in these days we had at the time of knowledge and scholars. Without having studied, many farmers are really smart and even scholars in their field, but not educated. Educated people know everyone. As recognized by such wise King Solomon, Socrates, Confucius and Lao Tse, and Illuminated Buddha and even Gandhi, Mother Teresa's and some other saints, Muhammad is the prophet of Islam founder, Daniel David Moses and the biblical prophets and Jesus were the greatest Prophet. To become wise requires certain qualities such as humility and sensitivity, and objectivity and good sense, for example, when God tells Solomon to ask him what he wants and so wise that is , asks wisdom.

We must learn from the saints and sages is important to know, yes, but more important to know and then find unsuspected connections between different areas of knowledge, connect the dots between the foreign and the same, between the earthly and heavenly, divine and profane. They understand that the infinite does not exist, it is simply a human invention whose dwelling is the wonderful world of ideas, understand that the parallel lines are not such, they come together where to look within reach, perhaps sitting on the shoulders of giants as if a last frontier, whose quest is more important than touch it or find it, it gives us the illusion that, just search.

scholar, educated and pianist Jacques Sagot, raises the need to retake the lost spirituality through a proposal that may or may sound absurd, but if you think more clearly, could be successful. He proposes that religious education should return to our schools, of course, leaving aside the creeds, he stated in the opinion article "Education and religious experience" that "Let the creeds out. I speak of religious experience. The experience of the divine. From all perspectives: anthropological, cultural, philosophical, psychological and, yes, as a mystical revelation. "Could it be a crazy idea? Personally I think not.

R ECORD in his day, as a tribute to this great saint and why not, wise, beautiful prayer attributed to him, although written in the twentieth century: " me an instrument of your peace ".

"Everybody is ignorant, what happens is that the
ignorance of each is relative"

Albert Einstein