“We may venture the step back out of philosophy into the thinking of Being as soon as we have grown familiar with the provenance of thinking.”
-Martin Heidegger

I have found that the very best thing to do is to make the world as small as possible in my understanding. 

As an analogy, imagine compressing the vast network of human knowledge into an object that you can hold, ready to use, in your hand. 

That object is wisdom. 

The property that binds that object together is thinking.

Thinking about the construction of that object is philosophy.

Thoroughly grasping that object is perception.

Actively using that object is sapience.

The object of wisdom that I hold is only temporarily mine.

It contains within it borrowed pieces from many corners of human thought.

My task is merely to shape my object into something that makes sense to me, something that I can use,

Standing on the shoulders of those who came before.

Wisdom is the transformation of our collective laborious thinking into condensed ready-to-hand concepts.

By freeing us of the work of thinking, wisdom makes space in our minds. 

This resultant space is our freedom. 

And out of freedom, this mental empty space,

New ideas flash into existence like lightning in a night sky.

These flashing thoughts manifest themselves, become tested through our actions,

And the ones best fit to our lives form our way forward.

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This is the emergent process of human thinking.

We use thinking as a tool for our individual and collective evolution,

Towards the goal of living the good life in this world.

The highest ambition of thought is action,

And the origin of thinking is the desire to perceive.

We are Homo Sapiens: “the being who perceives the world.”

We are those who desire a thorough grasp of everything.

Our thinking resides between perception and action.

Thus, out of our perception, action emerges.

If you alter your perception your actions will follow naturally.

If you build your thoughts in such a way that they hold themselves together,

They will begin to think on their own.

In this way we should strive to make the world as small as possible in our understanding

And then thinking itself can withdraw into subconsciousness.

As thinking withdraws, so shall action, into the land of animal instinctiveness

Left, we will have but one thing,

And we shall grasp it firmly,

Understanding deeply and intuitively,

The only true path forward.