Beginning today I am reading and thinking about Leo Tolstoy’s short story, Three Questions.
It’s available free at gutenberg.org included in the broader title, What Men Live By, And Other Tales. Tolstoy was a Russian writer and philosopher. His best know works include “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina.”
Tolstoy began his short story, Three Questions, “It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid; and, above all, if he always knew what was the most important thing to do, he would never fail in anything he might undertake.”
Note: Tolstoy’s tale begins with a king’s search for wisdom. The king begins his adventure. Each of us, in some way, initiate this adventure each day if we are awake. If we are awake we can search for wisdom in the events, people, and circumstances of our lives. We discover wisdom in the present moment through the interactions we have with all the goings on in our life.