✦It is said by Shams Tabrizi:! ؟

“You must understand… that age is merely a number, and it does not define your reality at all. You may be a child in your sixties, and an old man in your twenties.”

Age is not what you live… but what you are aware of.

How many people have advanced in years, yet remained captive to their desires, quick to anger, narrow in understanding—never truly maturing within, despite everything they have been through… as if the years passed over them, not through them.

And how many young people have not lived long, yet learned to see things deeply, to control themselves, to understand people and life—so it is as if experience had been compressed into their years.

The idea is not to grow older… but to grow wiser.
Not to live longer… but to live consciously.

Childhood is not an age… but a state of being.
And old age is not wrinkles; it is insight.💔