It's good to remember that everything is «under control of One who
possesses perfect wisdom, perfect justice, and perfect love.»
When tempted to hit eject on the local church, will we trust the infinite,
perfect wisdom of God or our own finite, fallen instincts?
Hence Alexander Hamilton asked wryly, «Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct that we... are yet remote from the happy empire of
perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?»
The Heart Sutra is said to contain the absolute essence of true and
perfect wisdom — the two realities.