1 Kings 3:12 · World English Bible
behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.
The gift is not a clever mind but an understanding heart. There is a knowing that has nothing to do with accumulating facts.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
The gift is not a clever mind but an understanding heart. There is a knowing that has nothing to do with accumulating facts. It rises from a place deeper than thought, the still intelligence that sees what is actually here rather than what the mind projects.
Most people spend their lives sharpening the intellect and wonder why they remain confused. An understanding heart is different. It is awareness itself grown present in you. Solomon was given this, and none arose like him, because such wisdom comes not from thinking harder but from a stillness in which clear seeing becomes possible.
Ego v. Being lens
Do I need more information right now, or more quiet?
True learning is not adding. It is dropping what you do not need until what is left can see.
A cup full of your own opinions has no room for tea.
The truth of things is not reached by heaping up ideas. It is known in the heart, where thought grows quiet.
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Ego v. Being