Spirituality

Ageing is not for the weak

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“Aging is not for the weak. One day you wake up and realize that your youth is gone, but along with it, so go insecurity, haste, and the need to please… You learn to walk more slowly, but with greater certainty. You say goodbye without fear, and you cherish those who stay. Aging means letting go, it means accepting, it means discovering that beauty was never in our skin… but in the story we carry inside us.”
– Meryl Streep

This is a beautiful reflection on aging that touches on several profound truths. The passage eloquently captures how aging brings not just physical changes, but also emotional and spiritual growth – a kind of wisdom that comes from life experience.

I particularly appreciate how it reframes aging as a process of gaining rather than just losing. While youth fades, the text suggests we gain valuable traits like:

  • Self-assurance that replaces insecurity
  • Patience that replaces haste
  • Authenticity that replaces people-pleasing
  • Wisdom in relationships – both in letting go and cherishing
  • A deeper understanding of beauty as something internal rather than external

The metaphor of walking “more slowly, but with greater certainty” is especially powerful – it captures how aging can bring a kind of confident deliberateness that youth often lacks.

Would you say this resonates with your own experiences or observations about aging? I am curious know how this perspective compares with common cultural narratives about getting older.

– One Tusk

WHAT WILL MATTER?

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Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear.
So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.

It won’t matter where you came from or what side of the tracks you lived on at the end.
It won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender and skin colour will be irrelevant.

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Blueprints of Awakening

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When asked about his biography for the sake of publishing this book, Kiran Baba immediately gave us a straightforward answer:

“I have no biography. This body has a biography but this is not very important. Why insist on that? 
You can give your reflections about how it was when you met me and what you have seen here. That much you can share, but there is no need of describing what kind of dreams I was into, what kind of dreams I carried, now that the person to whom you are talking has no history, has no past and has no future. This person is just living into this moment and this is the expression of life. It is like a beautiful flower. You don’t have to ask anything to a flower. You enjoy the beauty and the fragrance of the flower, and that is enough.
 
If you ask me, I am a businessman, I go to the factory, I am a husband to my wife, I am a grandfather and father to my children, and that is it, that is all!

https://www.smashwords.com/extreader/read/574716/5/spiritual-game-kiran-baba-on-the-holy-business-of-enlightenm