Wisdom
Between what happens to us, and what we react to it, there is a gap. This gap is where wisdom presides. A wise man uses this gap and reacts appropriately to the stimulus that the outside world offers us. What is appropriate, the wise man decides based on the knowledge he has, the wisdom of the people of the past, that of the people around him, of old men and of children alike, that of rocks and pebbles too. Standing atop shoulders of giants, he navigates through life.
The wise man is ever learning, and absorbs wisdom from the universe like a sponge.
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