Child wisdom
We have much to learn from children—the simple, the pure, the truth.
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Child wisdom
The Little Prince
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I was thinking about all the time spent browsing with no real aim, and how even as a 12 year old, there was some small intuitive sense of the things I was drawn to.
Charles Broskoski • Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
Last Sunbeams of Childhood
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As anyone who has been interrogated by a smart aleck child knows it takes maybe four whys in a row before the veneer of adult knowing falls apart completely. The first why is easy to answer, the second why requires pulling from the jigsaw puzzle of stock answers and handed-down cliches. Further whys beyond this and things start becoming worryingly ... See more
Thomas J Bevan • On New Year's Resolutions
inner acceptance, love and peace in my experience are the only things that don’t reduce to meaninglessness when hit repeatedly with a succession of child-like whys.
Lyle: "Why are you crying?"
Eli: "I don’t know! I’ve just got a whole lot of tears inside me. I can’t help it"
– Boy Swallows Universe
when we are born, we experience reality with very few “priors” – preexisting beliefs, expectations, conceptual schemas through which to filter what we see. And so a child’s experience is an endless explosion of vividness. Slowly we start to make sense of the world, we start to notice repeating patterns, we start to establish boundaries between “me”... See more
Kasra • Tastes of magic
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men - Roald Dahl
