It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields.
We are all convinced that we are only capable of so much, aren't we? So true to our convictions that our conditioning keeps us stuck in a certain level of being and doing. These limiting beliefs are passed down from the generations before us. What makes these "old people" wiser than us? Why do we adhere to the essaging the passed down and limit ourselves accordingly.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
Do we really know what we are capable of other than assuming limitation based on what we were taught?
But man's capacities have never been measured, nor are we to judge of what we ca do by an precedents, So little has been tried.
We really don't know, do we, and it is okay that we don't? Such not-knowing leads us into exploring and experimenting with truth like Thoreau had done on Walden Pond.
As Confucios said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge..."
All is well.
Henry David Thoreau/Full Text Archive. Chapter One: Economy in Walden Walden.https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Walden-by-Henry-David-Thoreau/
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