Art of Living: Timeless Wisdom Is in Healthy and Joyful Mind, Body, Spirit

Copyright © 2017 Tadeusz Nowicki.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1:  Timeless Wisdom

Art of Living a Life of Virtue: One’s Self-mastery

The Art of Living in Internal and External Ecosystems

The Art of Living Creates Ways for a Balanced Life

Purpose of Life

Secrets of Life

Life Processes, Duality of Nature, and Polarity

Wellness of Life

Challenges in Life

Sensible Living

Chapter 2:  Empower Your Mind

Mind Destiny

Autonomous Mind

The Human Brain Is a Super Biological Computer

Processes of the Mind

Chapter 3:  Art of Living Foundations: Air, Water, Food

Natural Nutrition = Natural Medicine

Use the Medicine of Nature—Organic, Unprocessed Food

Chapter 4:  Unity of Man, Life, Nature, and the Universe

Space, Time, Past, Present, Future

Chapter 5:  Eco-Sustainability

Water Future = Nature Future = Human Future

Chapter 6:  Humanity’s Future

Can We Foresee Humanity’s Future?

Wellness in the Human Future

Our Extreme Faults and Our Chances

My Story

For My Readers

Bibliography

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book is my debt to all human ancestors, their survivors, and ageless nature wisdom. I give a special recognition to all who were and are freethinkers. They are the leading forces for evolving humanity. In creative, stimulative, and tragic struggles, many things, ideas, and books can be born. I give limitless thanks to those who have protected, influenced, and helped all freethinkers in the past and present. Most important, I send my love and special recognition to the killed masses in the name of religions, politics, wars, race, and insanity. It is an immense shame for all humanity, and it’s a collapse of rationality. How could the love of life change into hate towards life?

Humanity is in the beginning of understanding its origin. With curiosity, learning, and knowing more about its responsibilities, humanity is constantly growing.

I wish to acknowledge the great world of wisdom created and collected by many serviceable thinkers. That is the first and the last resource leading to the survival of good humankind.

I acknowledge my editor at Balboa Press, and the co-workers, for improving every page, giving care, and guiding me to create better book.

I thank my wife, Anna, and our daughters, Joanna and Samantha, for their unlimited love and encouragement, and our fruitful life cooperation. I was very often surprised that Anna, a physician, would find information that was persuasive and needed for some segments of the book.

I want to particularly thank my ‘second mother’, and guardian, Irena Willim-Szewczyk, for her extraordinary influence.

The highest gratitude with love is for my mother, Helena Willim-Nowicki. She died at the age of ninety-one in 2010. Mostly with her own with help of our grandmother, she raised my older sister, Hanna, me; and my younger brother, Andrzej. My mother gave us essential and natural knowledge about life, as well as love and passion for living a healthy life. My father died too early at the age of forty-seven because he forgot about taking proper care of his mind, body, and spirit.

My deepest thanks to my life for everything what I have experienced, and for being able to see a little wonder in this magnificent and enigmatic journey.

INTRODUCTION

A long time ago, I started a fascinating and unique journey of learning. My intention was to start a journey through the universe, the inner microcosm and outer macrocosm. I become hooked on finding an extraordinary and true knowledge, a wisdom usable for me and others. The collection of information became the main source for this my book. I searched for essential extracts that can stimulate our minds to understand ourselves and our mysterious lives, and that can make it more fruitful and more enjoyable. Sometimes truth is amusing, and sometimes it’s difficult and distressing. Truth in the end is the true winner. Everything depends how we understand it and use it to become more helpful, informative, wiser, and well.

The old title was Understanding Man, Life, and the Universe. As I changed with time, I changed my book. I realised that nobody would understand enough on such a broad subject. No philosophy, no religions, and no education will come closer. This process of learning for all of us will be forever. I also realised that not everything would be practical, or useful enough, or the best way to live life. I search for knowledge, which is serviceable straight away. These never-ending processes of life are help us be functional as we constantly learn how to survive and live with the joy of life as individuals and as a species. Without proper understanding of ourselves, nature, and life, we cannot escape from strictness, harshness, and false ideas of existing. Life is all we have, and not much is explained. Life is too intricate, and it’s beyond the scope of my book or any book.

We are beyond the real scene if we cannot see the wider spectrum of life and inside of ourselves. We should seek more conscious living experiences, and we should suffer less. Conscious living is contemplative living. We cannot survive and advance properly without all of the above. True wisdom is the outcome of life’s contemplative journey. When I started study and steadily collecting the knowledge for myself, it was chaotic and not always focused on important information. However, I was lucky to become addicted to curiosity, which led me in right direction. With passing time, I realised that I should share it. I studied more to better understand life.

I considered that I did not understand enough to publish. I preferred to search for more truthfulness in life, rather than finish my book. I was calm and enjoyed being submerged in new facts. However, after conversations with many friends and strangers, discussing some life issues, they suggested that I finish my book. There is a never-ending river of information about life. It is true that life is enigmatic, and there are complex matters which are beyond the scope of my book or any book. Our life is a glimpse, and by exchanging glimpses we can see more. We will understand new things, and we will enjoy other wonders of life. If we will combine our exploration and understanding, then we will enjoy more of the enigma of our existence. Our lifetime is the only way we can explain it and enjoy it. However, I think that life can be only explained by itself.

I have written for humans who are inquisitive with a desire to find order and meaning in life. By mixing my thoughts with the reader’s impressions and ideas, we should obtain original hybrids of concepts and effects. I believe that it will be helpful to stimulate positively some deeper levels of the mind. I try to supply various readers’ needs via summaries of some human important concepts, which include the scientific and proscientific validation, as well as ancient and modern wisdom.

Some information that I include in this book come from ancient times, and it has not changed for many thousands of years. However, human exploration of all that is will never be final. I have striven for objectivity. I had hoped to avoid the subjective through interpretation that would hold the left and the right, the negative and positive. I believe my book wanders on the middle way and presents various type of knowledge in recognisable forms for most people. I offer a combination of information from several subjects about the mystery and mastery of life.

I use the word wellness as the wide term of philosophical, psychological, and physiological sense and concepts, in order to define our states of mind and body. Wellness exists in a variety of emotional states and is an individual perception. It is about living the life in the natural way, discovering and creating its meaning. Wellness needs a certain order of important factors and timing to exist. Wellness is so enigmatic and obvious at the same time.

We are on the way to raising our personal consciousness, which is increasing the collective consciousness and awareness of humanity. Additionally, conjoining with all people and cooperating with whole environment is the only way to enhance our chances to survive as a civilization. I am very deeply grateful for my existence, and I like that I can study some of the immense ocean of information and insight. Furthermore, I hope my book will be useful for you. Out of my humble service, positive sensations, and excitement, I offer my thoughts.

I wish you conscious wellness with the proper care of your body, mind, and spirit. All the best in enjoying your lifetime as you have and enjoy what you need.

Tadeusz Nowicki

Love the world as yourself, then you can truly care for all things.

—Tao Te-Ching

Where are you going?

You are the phenomenon of the life.

Are you reflecting enough on the ways of your life?

Do you have a conscious, good, and balanced life?

Remember

That your journey through life is the

Journey through knowledge about life,

The universe, man, and your inner self.

Essential knowledge creates more

Freedom, wellness, and fulfilment in your life.

CHAPTER 1

TIMELESS WISDOM

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realise how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

—Socrates

Timeless wisdom comes from life, nature, truth, and ancient and modern times. It is wisdom about the principles of evolving energy and matter in the single atom and the entire universe. Timeless wisdom comes from loving life, acquiring nature’s truth every day, and understanding yourself and life. Universe information and life forces are the matrixes of nature wisdom. Timeless wisdom connects what seems unconnected.

Timeless wisdom accepts completely the gift of life, rectifies each day, and creates the balance, joy, purpose, and wellness of existence. Wisdom is unified with the continuity of conscious living, which interacts with the whole of nature and the universe. Wisdom comes from honouring and absolute truthfulness to life and yourself. Self-honouring will prompt the honouring of all living in harmony, honesty, and wisdom. You are already wise if you know what you don’t know, and if you also know you will never know everything.

Our minds, hearts, guts, and biofields (auras) are the processors and recollection of our internal and external realities. We must be careful what kind of gut microbiota we have. We should act through our food, bodies, minds, and spirits before an imbalance happens. We are powerful generators of energies, influencing and creating reality around ourselves. The goal is to put wisdom and virtuous life into the attitudes of nations and civilisations. Wisdom explains itself and is the way to embrace life, the universe, and many civilisations. Wisdom is the only fortune that will never lose its greatness. The timeless secret of wisdom is living the essence of nature truth in nature’s way. Wisdom’s secret is timeless, and it’s unified with the continuity of conscious humanity living and surviving in the way of nature.

The Power of Wisdom Comes from the Universality of Truth

The power of wisdom creates envy in others, but all of humanity has an equal right to retrieve information and learn. All goodness comes from good information stored and used by the mind, spirit, and body. To know that old things are stores of information is great, but knowing that ancient wisdom brings illumination is much more important; this is the base of everything in our lives. A worthy life is available only for a learned, inquiring, open mind.

Nature’s way is simple and easy, but men prefer what is intricate and artificial.

—Lao Tzu

Wellness is the outcome of true, useful information; positive thoughts; ideas; and actions. In modern times, we must also find natural, unspoiled, nutritious food. Without it, we cannot function properly on any level. A good life needs regular exercise and enough rest and sleep. Let us create consciously, better, and with pleasure, knowing that we create a new thing in each moment. You can trust only Mother Nature, who never cheats and always supplies true information.

Truth is nature’s conduct; it is the way of life. The ultimate truth is alive in nature. The conscious human lives the natural way, learning from life’s endless manifestations, which lead to oneness and the unity of truth. The truth, with its consequences, guides itself and arrives at reality. Truth and wisdom speak for themselves. Search for wisdom as you would search for food and security. Everybody uses different ways to search for the truth, and all roads are good or necessary for different individuals.

If we respect the truth and wellness of life, the rest takes care of itself.

Life asks you to make a choice for reliability, to live and speak with truth. Elevated thinking creates equilibrium, love, and a beautiful life. Peace comes to those who appraise and follow the truth. Humanity is the effect of the many fusions of the truths, so consciously grow and stand for all. The universe and life are waiting for you to create your good life. Do not wait for things you ought to create through wisdom and right actions.

Ancient and modern wisdom collect life essence. Find the extract of ancient and modern wisdom to create your life wellness.

Ancient and Modern Wisdom for the Present

- First, learn how to learn.

- Learn to ponder.

- Learn by asking questions.

- Questions are sometimes more important than the answers.

- Learn by listening, reading, observing, and taking notes.

- Learn by sharing and exchanging.

- The more we give, the more we receive.

- Use relaxed, unhurried, modest, constructive ways to explore life.

- Meaning is temporary on the road of life.

- All ways are temporary and endless.

- If there is change, there is life.

- With peace, balance, joy, and wisdom, you can grow; maturing is acquired.

- Your best home is where the mind, body, and spirit are at peace and in balance.

- Respectful harmony with the nature creates a prospering whole.

- Closeness with nature rebalances our lives.

- Alignment with nature’s cycles maximizes wellness.

- Greatness starts with self-control and acceptance.

- In difficult times, the inner self becomes wiser and stronger by whispering with the universe.

- We can find the light of wisdom in human faces. Predictably, virtue follows the light of wisdom. Wisdom, with wonder and love for the life, leads to wellness.

- Knowledge and wisdom are included in nature.

- The love of nature is a natural preparation for wisdom and fulfilment.

- Nature is the best teacher; we can obtain knowledge we understand.

- We can imitate nature and reflect the truth.

- Nature and truth are present all the time in everything. Each of us has a separate mind and different levels of understanding, so we have different needs. We are the form of life’s complexities; we have different clarities, visions, and limitations.

- Knowledge cannot be locked up. It is cosmic and open to every thinker. Knowledge is limited only by one’s curiosity, ways of searching, and intellectual ability.

- Wisdom includes sensitivity and compassion that is widely learned and accepted by all.

- Do anything to be close to serenity and balance.

- Collect thoughts of truth endlessly so that your mind will become full of wisdom.

- The ruler of life, science, art, and wisdom is the truth, screened by the flood of ordinary things and events. The truth made the way a proper one, freer and more joyful.

- A little insight opens whole wisdom. If you will not understand it, you cannot use it, and you will never remember it.

- The ocean of information overloads us. We need to make proper selections.

- The art of living is being in balance and being useful to one’s family, one’s social circle, and humanity.

How to Acquire Knowledge and Ageless Wisdom

1. Develop a reliable mind-spirit-body and love for life.

2. Provide optimal whole care for the body-mind-spirit.

3. Consciously and constantly connect yourself with life and nature.

4. Discover yourself.

5. Collect true information from the past and present.

6. Learn about life’s mastery and ways.

7. Actuality, truth, nature, and life create wisdom.

8. Every inquiry is designed and restricted by your knowledge.

9. Logical thinking on the basis of reason becomes knowledge, or wisdom, for people with higher consciousnesses.

Additionally, we need:

- the desire to know and honestly work on it

- a positive, rational attitude towards everything

- to be unafraid to think

- proper thinking, seeing the world, and creating our lives

- all kinds of useful information and understanding of ourselves and our world

- to concentrate on the most important subjects; study yourself, others, and life

- accessibility to information

- to be fully submerged in the present

- mindfulness united with the intellectual insight and improved awareness and consciousness about nature and its beings

- progressions of knowing, storing, and processing information

- to develop and control practical circumstances, which secures balance, peace, gratitude, and contentment

- to go to the past only for valued memories, information, joy, and teachings

- to not dwell on regret, grief, disillusionment, defeat, and indecision

- to unlock unlimited potential in order to attain maximum performance during life

- to know we are not always right, but we have the chance to evolve

- to grow through an exchange of the old for the new, of the good for the better; the great news is that possibilities are truly endless

- to know that we can design our destinies and live the lives of dreams

- the processes of creative endeavours with an extensive vision beyond the human body

- to avoid depending completely on any belief system, but to incorporate our own views

- to increase awareness of the real power of our minds and remodel ourselves and the world

One who will not respect life or think constructively and positively about life does not deserve it. Life itself composes the power of attraction in quantum levels to create life and spread it in the universe. The universe and conscious life are in the eternal process of becoming.

How many people can produce new ideas, innovations, and unique ways of creation? Not the majority. A small number of people achieve the highest flights of intellect.

Ancient and modern wisdom complete each other to obtain easier wellness and enlightenment, and to create sustainable existence. Wisdom comes through the balance of perception, acceptance, reflection, and serenity. Most ancestral wisdom is collected in the subconscious memory. All known sages, thinkers, and philosophers are merely transmitters of earlier knowledge. Nobody knows where and when the human mind was awakened and started to consciously collect information and produce original thoughts.

The natural life is the outcome of the universe’s law and its energy. Wisdom is the discovered, understandable truth from the natural life.

We are here to learn, share, and combine our forces. It’s our duty to discover and develop all that is best in us. Discover something new every day. Even a little bit will make you more content as you crave more knowledge. Realizing your dependence on knowledge, learning, and action will make you freer. These aspects start with curiosity. Seek the source of the mystery and wisdom. Stop and listen, think about life and the universe, concentrate, and understand the truth.

You cannot control yourself and have a pleasing existence until you understand yourself and correct all that’s inexcusable.

Mastery of wisdom starts with knowing ourselves. Knowing all kinds of relationships with nature and humans is the way to reach fullness of life. Mastery knows the simple fact that sometimes we are in control, and we must accept when we are out of control. Mastery is about controlling our attitudes. Regarding what we can’t control and do not understand, we should accept it with smile and humility. Mastery of wisdom offers an extensive understanding of the changeable reality, constantly inquiring into its unpredictability with a positive and respectful attitude. Knowing that there is no end towards mastery, but being on such a journey, is the ultimate, joyful destiny.

Mastery asks you to use willingness in order to gain control over the fears of the unknown and the unknowable.

Wisdom is the difference between man’s insignificance and human greatness. Can you open the book of nature to learn the truth? Wisdom can saturate only the open heart, mind, and spirit in a lifetime of exploration.

All life is about myriad good, bad, neutral, and extraordinary experiences. Experience it, expect it thankfully, and live joyfully with all. Your life is about understanding more raising your consciousness. Dwell on the essence of life and truth, matured from ancient time; it will bring the best of life and the best of you.

Ask yourself honestly, What is the most essential issue for everybody? What is the first, most important responsibility? The answers to these questions are inseparable from each other. In order to have a good quality of daily existence, we need health, so we should take a proper care of our body-mind-spirit every day. The universe exists only through mind, which is the foundation of human individual existence and existence of outside world. For the searchers and for the man of wisdom, the best way is the mind practice. Mind is an effect of computing gathered information by mind-body universe. Mind power is enormous; it creates our daily existence and relations with the external world. However, it relies on healthy gut microbiota and good natural nutrition.

The Quintessence of Knowledge Creates the Immortalized Words of Wisdom

The best way to have more pleasure from the disease of curiosity is by asking more questions and studying more.

Ancient philosophy realized the vital ability to see the world and ourselves. We are rediscovering natural, universal wisdom and its application in the daily routine of our lives. It is an art to create a natural way towards wisdom, securing our harmonious existence with ourselves and nature. With ancient and modern wisdom, we all will be able to live and dance amongst the stars. Many answers will change in time because we change, and our knowledge will change too. Vast, collective wisdom started in ancient times does not change. Ancient, ageless wisdom and the modern era of the digital world saturate each other. Wisdom supremacy lies in constantly exploring the mysterious and the familiar. Living with wisdom finds that everything is connected, and living without wisdom isn’t worth the effort. Living without the light of wisdom is living in darkness. You can learn from ancient and modern wisdom that our attitude is more important than reality. Ancient wisdom mixed with modern, true information can secure our future. This blend can work for the world goodwill towards proper human relationships and cooperation. The more consistent, harmonious, and correct with the