Knowledge Versus Wisdom

Knowledge is when you know that tomatoes are fruit. Wisdom is to know not to put tomatoes in a fruit salad.

I once saw a chart that showed the analytical abilities of people to figure out a financial problem by age group. The people who took the test ranged from 20 to 70 and when you looked at their performance, you found that the 20 year old scored the best, and from there on it was a straight line down, i.e. the older you got, the lower was your mental ability to figure a new concept out.

For all those older than 20, are you depressed now? You shouldn't. If you do make it a conscious effort to discover the divine part inside yourself, like most in this community do, you have an incredible source of wisdom to rely on which more than compensates for the reduced mental speed. Perhaps you can make this statement even stronger than that. The reduced reliance on your mental process actually may even enable the metaphysical force inside yourself to come to the fore.

I read the fruit salad insight somewhere in a book many years ago and it suddenly popped into my head when I thought about the challenges and opportunities of aging. Believe it or not, you actually can look forward to aging because all the little random piece of information that you gather in your life time, as well as your millions of personal experiences will be available to you at your demand, magically supplied by this magnificent force inside yourself. But this force only comes if and when you succeed to keep the little I at bay. Otherwise you may suddenly look very old as you age and may at one point even forget that one doesn't put tomatoes into a fruit salad.