Q) What do you think is more important, material wealth or knowledge, wisdom, and decision?

My answer ) Bruce Lee once said :-

Instead of buying your children all the things you never had , you should teach them all the things you never taught . material wears out but knowledge stays.

Now days people are too obsessed over possessing materialistic things and running around for seeking worldly pleasures they has totally forgotten the immense importance knowledge adds into our life. It is even mentioned in the poem “ Animals “ by Walt Whitman that nowadays we are too concerned about worldly pleasures that we forgot all the golden qualities we had. in the poem it’s also mentioned that we have lost our quality of being self contented or being satisfied with what we have . that’s what has happened to the current era , we have basically forgotten all those key features that are way more important than materialistic stuff. Imagine if you stuck in an natural disaster (earthquake) for so , evidently you will have to be evacuated from there soon has possible , due to which most of your materialistic stuff is gonna be left behind. and now when you start a kinda of new life in an another place , absolutely you aren’t gonna buy all the stuff you had as you have collected them over a period of years due to the high costing , due to which no materialistic stuff , but knowledge stays , knowledge was with you when you had the materialistic stuff and when you don’t have it right now. now with the proper utilization of the knowledge and by providing it proper nourishment ( upgrading it ) you would be able to achieve the materialistic stuff in no time. see knowledge is everything mate , it is what that helps you achieve anything you possibly dream of achieving. it is only knowledge that keeps you different from other species of the animal world. so keep up with the nourishment of your knowledge . keep on upgrading it time to time. try on seeking knowledge each and every where possible.

Knowledge is like a garden if not cultivated it cannot be harvested. evidently if you don’t plant a seed , how could you expect to receive a fruit from it . similarly , you have gain the basic knowledge , form it has your foundation and keep building by putting on one brick at a time ( upgrading your knowledge) ( seeking new knowledge every single day ) , and soon in no time it will be a huge building , then enjoy the factors offered by the building.

If money is your hope for independence( you become what you want to become ) , you will never have it . the only security a human being will have in this world is reserve of knowledge and experience . money , materialistic stuff come and go , but the only thing that stays with you forever if you grind it time to time ( revise ) is knowledge ( experience included , as in every new experience shares a piece of new knowledge , making it important for survival in upcoming period of hurdles ). being dependent of something that comes and goes , makes no sense , but being dependent on something that stays with you forever as in you make the bond stronger ( revise ) is truly a work of a wise person.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we don’t understand at the first. soon you will start to notice the immense importance of knowledge in your life. knowledge is that element which is under noticed at the first due to no results seen quickly due to which most of them give up on the idea , which is absolutely the main reason where 95% people are in that average category. but soon you will start to notice the utmost importance of knowledge in your life and the value it brings in. for this to happen you just have to patient , never give up and believe in yourself.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Human capital , it is often heard that investing in human minds gives you the best profit possible. it is your skills that make an raw material to an valuable product . and that skills are what we call knowledge , knowledge overall is important for the well being of all the species living in the planet , it is due to knowledge that we are able advance in various segments , it is due to knowledge that we are living the better life today.

There is no wealth like knowledge and no poverty like ignorance ~ Buddha .

More the knowledge , less the ego , less the knowledge , more the ego. you often start to become a better person while you start having the required amount of knowledge to understand about the environment you live in. The more someone knows, the more obvious it becomes how much is still left to be known and how little we actually know about stuff . Ego cannot survive with that awareness. you knowing that you know a drop out of the ocean kills the ego right aways , absolutely not completely but to an extent where it can be called killed.

When someone knows very little, they don’t realize how much is left to be known so their ego can believe they know stuff . and slowly ego builds up. due to which it is rightly said by Albert Einstein :-More the knowledge , less the ego , less the knowledge , more the ego.

~Manas Seetharama