Facebook Philosophizing

Many of my acquaintances and friends write, or quote, really good thoughts on Facebook. Usually they use quotations.  Inspiring, uplifting, thoughtful.

I read them, think, hey, cool; and then I have a singular tendency to forget them.

I know why this is, now. When we are handed wisdom, reduced to a few short sentences, it is still wisdom, but it isn't felt on the pulse. It isn't truly vital to who we are right now. It's wisdom that hasn't been earned, puzzled through, wrestled with.  It's like reading the answers to a math problem without doing the equation.  It tends not to stick.

In this resides, perhaps, the human dilemma.  How can we retrieve what we know so that we can use it when we need it?