As our mind is... so will be our life. Our life is the sum total resultant of whatever we have ever intended in the whole of the hoary past and whatever we are currently, in this life-time, now, intending.
Wisdom is distilled experience. The more we shirk experiences, the farther we are from wisdom.
When you think that you are just a Physical body, the paradise is lost. When you understand that you are a SOUL, the paradise is regained.
How many life-times will we watch simply others' greatness, discuss others' enlightenment. How many life-times will we sing songs, praise others' meditation and others' enlightenment. If we sing songs praising others' meditation and others' enlightenment, will our personal problems be solved. Only our personal meditation, our personal enlightenment, can solve our personal problems.