A VIEW FROM HIGH: OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS OF A SOJOURNER ON EARTH FROM ATOP THE BEAUTIFUL MOUNT - VOLUME 1

"Get wisdom! Get understanding!

Do not forget, nor turn away from

the words of my mouth.

Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you;

Love her, and she will keep you.

Wisdom is the principal thing;

Therefore get wisdom.

And in all your getting, get understanding.

Exalt her, and she will promote you;

She will bring you honor, when you embrace her.

She will place on your head an ornament of grace;

A crown of glory she will deliver to you."

Those are the words of the wisest man who ever lived which I have kept in the innermost chamber of my heart and in the forefront of my consciousness since the age of my spiritual awakening at sixteen. The wisdom and the understanding I have gained from all that I have observed and reflected on since my renaissance I have earnestly sought to apply in my life. Here's what I have noted down in over half a century of deep ponderings on all that transpired outside me and within me as I sojourned on this temporal terrain.