Knowledge can tell us what needs to change. It offers the facts, the reasons, the clarity. It can show us what’s broken—and even suggest what might be better.

But knowing something… doesn’t mean we’ve changed.

Real change—the kind that reshapes a life, the kind that moves us from the inside out—comes not from the mind, but from the heart.

You can understand a thing a thousand times in your head and still not take a single step in your being.

Because until that knowing is felt—until it becomes tender, lived, held with love—it hasn’t yet become wisdom.

Wisdom is different. Wisdom is knowledge that has been softened. It has passed through the fire… through sorrow, through surrender… and come out the other side as something quieter. Kinder. Truer.

Wisdom lives in the heart.

It doesn’t rush.

It doesn’t insist.

It waits. It calls—gently—and lets us come when we’re ready.

So yes, learn. Read. Listen. Understand. But don’t stop there.

Let what you’ve learned drop down—into the quiet of your own heart. Let it rest there, in the stillness… Let it steep in your tears, your longing, your love.

And then, when the time is right, let it rise—not as something to strive for, but as something that’s already true in you.

That’s where real change begins.

That’s where we begin again.

Nigel Lott teaandzen.org