Reflective awareness has to be developed through deliberate encouragement and practice, such as through exercises of meditation, because the default is to let assumptions, beliefs, passions and worries lead the mind — because they speak the loudest. So an important piece of  theory is to remember to take the time and create the occasions to bring our wisdom forth. This is how  theory, leads on to practice. Wisdom is not just a matter of refined intellect — psychopaths and dictators can be very cunning — but of our ability to evaluate mind states as they are directly felt in the present.

Ajahn Sucitto, Parami