Crazy Wisdom

Joker Why So Serious

Originally posted as a response to @francisginter‘s giveaway of a Kindle Book Gift Certificate to “J.Bird’s Furnace”, a crazy wisdom poem for spiritual seekers and lovers of life.

When I see the words “crazy wisdom”, a lot of things pop up inside my mind in a… chaotic order — if that makes sense without creating a paradox, or at least not as great a paradox as the phrase:

I know that I know nothing.

Indeed, I don’t think we can talk about wisdom without hearing Socrates inside our heads. He was an example of how to, let’s say, balance what little wisdom we have: By neither underestimating nor overestimating it. Continue reading