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wise-fool

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(person) by The Everett (5.4 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 10:12:26

A wise-fool is a person who seems the fool by the standards of practical mundanes and jaded cynics yet follows an innocent wisdom which comes from avoiding the corruption of world-wisdom and the loss of innocence or from a psychological or spiritual redemption and a second innocence. In Tarot, this is The Fool; in Christian religions, this is someone who's replaced the taste of the Forbidden Fruit with the Eucharist; in Buddhism this is someone who's achieved satori.

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Satori Eucharist The fragile innocence of inanimate objects The Idiot
second innocence Sophomore George Washington's 1796 State of the Union Address Unicode Middle Eastern Scripts
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