What impact does spirituality have on wisdom?
That depends on how you define spirituality. If you equate spirituality with religion, how religious people are – well, wise people aren’t more or less religious than others. . . . However, if you define spirituality as a sense of meaning in life, purpose and meaning in life, then of course, you have the strong relationship between wisdom and the sense of meaning and purpose in life. So it depends how you define it. I haven’t measured this, but I would think that probably wise people would be more forgiving. And wise people are clearly more loving because this is a component, this is how I define wisdom. So, if you go with that, if you say spirituality is loving others, finding meaning and purpose in life, then yes, there would be a relationship. How can we use your study in a practical way? What it shows, because these were older people, is that wisdom is very important in old age. And how do you get wisdom? You don’t get it suddenly in old age. So that basically means you have to pre
