Ancestors Speak – Confucius on Youth

“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?”  ~Confucius~

Picture of kids in a team building exercise from www.extension.umaine.edu

 

 

 

 

Confucius was considered by many to be a mystic, a seer, and therefore, one who had knowledge of the future.  Perhaps this is why his meanings for the casts of the I-Ching hold so much weight.  Confucius did not invent the I-Ching, however, he did take the meanings to a depth that were not recorded before his time.

Confucius believed that the youth of the world will be the revitalizing force that creates a new world order.  With that in mind, he wrote about respecting the youth and the wisdom of youth.  With youth, comes ideas that are not belief ridden and built on ideas that have been false, yet generated for centuries.  For example, no one believed Nicolaus Copernicus who discovered the Earth revolved around the Sun. Copernicus began his discoveries in his early twenties and was scoffed at by all the elderly scholars who did not believe someone so young could out think them.

In the twentieth century, Bill Gates, in his teens, realized the potential of a software program that he and a friend created.  When IBM turned down the young men because IBM did not believe “uneducated” youngsters could create anything useable, Gates and his friend went on to create their own company.  Microsoft is now part of history.

You can think of many more examples of people, very young, who have created something out of the ordinary, and beyond the understanding of those much older then them.  Youth, then, needs to be treated with respect.

Judy@angelsandancestors.com  See some guidance from Archangel Michael at www.legionsofmichael.com

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