Then, at some point, I found the 'glue' for it all. To make a long story short, the 'glue' is the discovery that through 'integrated attention,' you can find all the answers and elegant solutions to all problems. This is the shortest way I can express what I mean, even if such an expression is, inevitably, highly inadequate. Basically, it means that all the answers are within and that you don't need anything else. You only need to know how to tap what could be called the 'pool of wisdom' that lays inside each and every person.
Wisdom is different than knowledge.
Pythagoras used to say that a drop of wisdom was worth a thousand barrels of knowledge. Wisdom implies, for me, an 'elegant' quality in the solutions provided, because each solution is perfectly adapted to the blend of the many complexities that make up a given situation. The apprehension ' of these many elements is not arrived at by analysis, but rather by an instant grasp of the whole picture. This instant grasp, and the way to tap into the pool of wisdom is what I call, for lack of better words, 'integrated attention. Integrated attention could be described as a form of meditation in action, in which you endeavor to be aware, in an optimum way, through life itself, of what is happening both 'outward' and 'inward', and what the interaction is between the two.