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We live in a Universe that works according to its laws. Nobody knows where the beginning is and where the end will be. A universe in which Nothing is random and everything follows an order that man is still trying to know. It is said that “Knowledge is power.” (Francis Bacon). Yet, what knowledge are we talking about? Is it mind knowledge or soul wisdom?

You get knowledge from books, but wisdom is within you 

We read, learn, get educated, get diplomas and yet we know so little. But some people did not go to school or have in-depth studies and know things that those who get educated do not know. Also, some children surprise us with wise words that come out of their mouths. They haven’t been to school yet and still, they know things that require a lot of learning or life experience.

Moreover, nature surprises us even if it does not get educated. Moreover, it resists storms, snow, “death” because it follows what it knows.

The sun rises and sets in the same way always… no one knows for how long. The trees put on and take off their clothes following their knowledge. The flowers grow and bloom following their knowledge stored in the tiny seed from which they are born. Also, water can retain information, says Dr Jacques Benveniste and Dr Masaru Emoto shows that through his experiences.

In the society we live in, we call people who follow the wisdom of their soul as successful people or chosen people. They are the ones who do not follow a certain pattern but follow their path, dreams and desires.

Successful people are people who do not give up what they want. They follow their soul. They are not scared of failures because they know that every failure is just a lesson. Instead, they use all the opportunities that life offers and follow their path regardless of the obstacles arising. They look for solutions using mind knowledge. 

Is knowledge good or bad?

Knowledge is a treasure, but the practice is the key to it.

– Lao Tzu

Knowledge can be good

Knowledge is good as long as it is used for the good of All. Not only for those who feel strong due to their premises they have arrogated to themselves and the fear they manipulate the masses with.

You can think of those who had believed in their dreams and did not let themselves be intimidated, those who defied the lack of trust they encountered. Thus, there is electricity, cars and technology. Those who invented them believed in the power of their dreams. They believed in the unseen and gave a good sense to knowledge. They had the desire of the soul and used the knowledge of the mind to create what was once just a desire coming out from the wisdom of the soul.

We all belong to the same planet, the same Universe as nature does. It gives us everything unconditionally. What about the man…? 

Knowledge can be bad

Many centuries ago, knowledge and both books and soul wisdom were punished to death in different ways because of money and the wish pf power. Nowadays, we live in a society where almost everything comes down to money and power. We are punished in a more sophisticated way: the poison in daily bread, water and food. The poison from the media, and the internet that chains through fear the knowledge of the mind and the wisdom of the soul. Also, through wars and bad news that separates and keep us divided us into races, colours, nations, religions… 

Knowledge can be bad.

Who owns the knowledge?

With or without much knowledge, we are all created the same. It is said that we are created in the image and likeness of a god. But the same god wants to punish us and does not want us to know.

He seems to be a selfish, an egotistic god. He wants knowledge only for himself. In this way, manipulate people through fear and make you believe that he or another/ others have more power than you do. Are you not created in his image? Then, you know, too.

Who has more power than you?

Trying to believe outside you, you feel weak and small. It is said that you give your power to the people and things you believe in. Whereas when you believe in yourself, the power is yours. Therefore, when you do things as you feel them, following the wisdom that comes from within, you feel good, you feel happy. Following that, your mind will use the knowledge gained from books to find solutions to what you want.  

It is the way that creates a balance between heart and mind that you need to become the creator of your life. Or it is said that your mind descended into your heart.

We have our knowledge vs. wisdom that resides in our soul. It believes in the unseen but it is what it knows. Where your mind finds thousands of doubts and reasons for not doing something, your soul will only tell you to move on. By believing your soul, you know that your power lies in you, in your soul wisdom and mind knowledge. You know that anything is possible. 

We have our knowledge vs. wisdom that resides in our soul. It believes in the unseen but it is what it knows. While your mind might find thousands of doubts and reasons for not doing something, your soul will only tell you to move on. By believing your soul, you know that your power lies in you, in your soul wisdom and mind knowledge. You know that anything is possible. 

Learning to know

The knowledge of all things is possible

― Leonardo da Vinci

When learning to know, you often fall on your way. But that is not because you don’t have the right to know or that you are worse than others. You fall just to learn to use every opportunity that is offered to you!

Your power of knowledge is not tied to a saviour outside you. Don’t expect anyone to drip anything into your heart because you are the one who has to knock on the gate of your soul “knock and it will open for you”. You are the one who needs to believe in him “believe and do not research”. The only hero is you and you will open the gate when you return to the wisdom of the soul and believe what it tells you.

See your soul as your teacher that is with you all the time. It always gives you the wisdom you need, and your mind offers the knowledge of the solutions for what you want. You choose how you use both your mind knowledge and soul wisdom. Just remember:

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

― Christopher Pike, Sati

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With love,

Manuela

Copyright © 2020 manuela@inalove.world

That question above and other things that have happened to me in recent years have made me feel on my skin how much the older ones are being put aside. How much they are considered a nuisance.

However, I have 2 questions for those who do these things:

• How would you feel if you were in an old person’s shoes?
• Have you ever wondered that maybe you won’t get to enjoy the days of that age?

Who is old? 

Gray hair is a crown of life.

― Lailah Gifty Akita

According to some, you are old after 45-50 years. According to others, you are old after 70 years. In my opinion, you can be old even at 25 and not even consider yourself being old at 95. Being a small child, my parents and relatives used to call me “the old lady”. You are as old as you feel.

However, our society has a very important role in seeing you old as fast as it can. He sees you as a worn-out garment to be thrown away. To work and retire, you must be as old as possible. To enjoy certain benefits you must be as young as possible. Here I am referring to all the restrictions that are imposed on the labour market, and benefits of all kinds you are cut from if you have passed a certain age. I mean, you’re good young as a slave, then you should die as fast as it can.

If you are old, you are not worthy

Why? Because you are no longer employed or you are overwhelmed if you want to change your job. Who else will hire you is the first question you are asked. Or why you want to change a job, is another.

Also, age is very important if you want a loan, or to buy a car or a house.

It is as if you are not allowed to know how to do more things or want to do something else in this life. You maybe realize later that you should do something else that suits you. Or maybe after years, you realize how important it is for your soul to do what you enjoy and not what others want.

No matter your age, You are born being worthy!

Why do we run away from the “age”?

We, generally, run away from the elderly. We tend to act like being older is the worst thing that can happen to us. My opinion is that we run away from them because we are afraid of how we can look when we are at that age. We are afraid of old age and death. As if the youth is the asset of eternal life, and old age is the proof of imminent death. But can you say how long you are going to live?

Getting old is like climbing a mountain. You are a little bit out of breath but the view is much better.

– Ingrid Bergman

No matter how old you are now

“No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a shortlist of people who accomplished great things at different ages

1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.

3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”

4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.

5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.

6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.

7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.

8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.

9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.

10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul McCartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.

11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.

12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23

13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24

14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4-minute mile record

15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity

16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France

17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28

18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world

19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter

20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind

22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest

23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream.”

24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics

25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world’s first successful aeroplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight

26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions.

27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.

28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, and 49 years old when he wrote “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas

30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger

31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States

32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.

33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote “The Hunger Games”

34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out.

35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.

36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.

37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.

38) Dr Seuss was 54 when he wrote “The Cat in the Hat”.

40) Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived

41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise

42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out

43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US

44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats

45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President”

― Pablo  

You are always the same age inside

For as long as I know, most of my best friends are older than me and children. I appreciate the story and the man’s wisdom who went through life, and the joy he shares to those eager to listen. I enjoy the happiness painted on the child’s face when he manages to do something on his own even if many do not give him any chance to succeed.

Besides, I see two ways of the simplicity of life in children and the elderly. On the one hand, the beginning of life. When your mind is not confused by the teaching of all kinds and ego, yet. And on the other hand, the simplicity of the elderly person who has gone through a lot along the path of life. The one’s who understands that it is much easier to live according to your heart desire and enjoy every day that is still destined for you now and here.

We do not have eternal youth, no matter how much we colour our hair or face. The only eternal youth is that of the soul.

We are always the same age inside.

– Gertrude Stein

Old or not, I’m not ashamed of my white hair, and I’m not ashamed to wear it the way it is. I am NOT ASHAMED OF MY AGE. For me, white hair is a joy that many others are not going to know it here and now.

Moreover, years may wrinkle your skin, but your wrinkles are the pages of your life written on your face. I like the way Mark Twain says it: “wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

How old are YOU now?

No matter what is written on your birth certificate, for Age is just a number.

Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.

― Gabriel García Márquez

With Love,

Copyright © 2020 manuela@inalove.world