Listen to Learn Wisdom

This morning, I read some good advice from a book on Stoicism. Apparently, a great stoic philosopher, Seneca, frequently quoted another philosopher, Epicurus. This may seem unusual because Epicurus had a very different philosophy from Seneca's (supposedly. I don't know much about Epicurus. That's just what the nook said). What's striking about this situation is that Seneca was able to gain knowledge and wisdom from a wide variety of sources, even some with whom he disagreed.

This weekend, the church will hold a General Conference, broadcasting messages from church leaders out to all the world. Most of the world will ignore those messages, but they'll be missing out on the wisdom that they could learn from listening to the church leaders, just as we miss out on wisdom when we choose not to listen to others. We all have something we can learn from everyone, even those of other faiths, and everyone, even those of other faiths, could stand to learn something from us.

So, let's listen and see what wisdom we can learn.