"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." Erica Jong

Erica has a point there. Maybe too, we often ask someone for advice because we aren't excited about what we know the answer will involve us doing: forgiving, risking, changing, loving, accepting, going, coming, saying yes, saying no--all faces of change. Having our own wisdom affirmed by someone we trust can encourage us to trust ourselves. Perhaps life is one opportunity after another arriving on the doorsteps of our hearts. Each time we hear the knocking we will have to decide if we will open the door. Advice is your Mom yelling from the kitchen "For heaven's sake, will you get the door!?"