Learning
December 1, 2008 by imgb-greatworks
It is one of my favorite passages that continue to inspire and serve as an enlightening reminder that I shouldn’t accept the common mistake of most people whenever they reach a certain age and make an excuse that they can no longer learn new things.
Simply put, it is a reminder for all of us to continue to evolve and improve ourselves to become better people than before. The best part of being human is the ability to continue expanding or growing up, never become stagnant on the traditional or conventional methods that most would simply adhere to and follow, either because they are afraid of the unknown or simply too lazy to try new things. Otherwise, we would never have reached progress if it weren’t for those “mavericks” that were never afraid of innovation or to break the barriers of convention.
I obtained it from Your Erroneous Zones by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, first published in 1976, pages 105-106. However, the author who originally wrote it and where Dr. Dyer derived it from is Mr. Terrence H. White from The Once and Future King (New York: C.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1958). Here it is:
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn—pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then, after you have exhausted a million lifetimes in biology and medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and economics, why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing. After that you can start again on mathematics until it is time to learn to plough.”
© 2008 by Israel Miguel G. Biscarra
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Very nice.
If you don’t mind, can I post it to my Multiply site? With your credit.
another wonderful post. loving, living, and learning — my fave subjects; the subjects you’re good at.
keep loving, living, learning, and never ever tire of sharing what you learn along the way, fellow blogger.