Discernment

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

I'm Muslim and I have the gift of discernment.

I have complete faith in your discernment and believe you'll make the right choices.

More than thirty years ago, when our knowledge of variation was far less than it is now, Dr. Stejneger had the discernment to interpret Colaptes auratus (Linnaeus), Colaptes cafer (Gmelin), and Colaptes hybridus (Baird) to be dichromatic or trichromatic phases of one species, and not two species that hybridize on a gigantic scale.

Wisdom is the power of discernment.

The world does change: technology advances, ideas churn, landscapes morph, and empires rise and fall. Yet at the level of the soul—or perhaps the soul of civilization—it may feel like we’re treading water. Patterns repeat. Greed returns. Compassion fades. Then reemerges, fragile and flickering. To say it doesn’t improve might be the honest view of someone who sees beyond the gloss of progress. It isn’t pessimism—it’s discernment. There’s a difference between blind cynicism and lucid sorrow. Still, the effort to not be a pessimist—that speaks volumes. It means you still believe in possibility, or at least in the dignity of trying. As T.S. Eliot wrote: "For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." Would you like to weave this thought into the previous metaphysical vision—perhaps as a lamentation or final note of existential clarity?

Discernment prevails over impulse.