The wisdom of the young is a real source of wisdom for us today, it’s of great value in every generation. It doesn’t mean that you should elect only young people, but we should listen to them and train them how to speak, and how to give them the mythos, the stories that allow them to think, and to think critically, and to risk actually having a conversation with people that they may not agree with. In this respect, we have failed the young and we carry the consequences. There’s been a break in the conversation. And that conversation between the different sources of wisdom, the old, the young, all the different traditions, that conversation allows all the sources of wisdom to flow together and to remind us of a common source, the Spirit.
( Sources of Wisdom by Laurence Freeman OSB )
