Question

Reflecting on the relationship between confidence/faith and wisdom, I feel that I am stronger in confidence and find it more easy to develop. How can I perhaps use the quality of confidence to develop and support wisdom?

Answer

To a certain extent using your confidence is going to encourage you to work, to work and keep working, and a never give up sort of attitude. We talked a little about self-doubt. Self-doubt is a give-up attitude, there's no confidence to continue. If a person does have confidence as a strong characteristic, then they're not going to quit. And so they want to encourage that aspect and remind themselves and always know, "I have confidence, I can do it." Many of you as children might have read a little children's book called "The Little Engine that Could." It's a cute little book and it's all about having confidence and not giving up, not giving up until a goal is achieved. And it did, in "The Little Engine that Could" book, the little engine does achieve a great thing that it wasn't supposed to achieve. And so this is where confidence can help us in our practice, because the more we work, then as it says at the end, the more we're going to develop and support our wisdom.

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