A while back my buddy and I were talking about how children are in this state of wonder and innocence about the world. Everything is amazing and interesting.
I was talking about how everything around us is a miracle. Color, sound, even a blade of grass is an amazing, miraculous thing.
I also said that it is interesting how quickly human beings get used to the miraculous. If dragons flew out of a volcano in Iceland, it would take about three weeks for humanity to get used to that idea and then we'd be on to the next thing. No joke.
He mentioned that the brain must be wired in such a way to as to be able to mute the effect of the miraculous. If we stayed in that wonder we would be liable to be eaten. It has to be some mechanism related to survival.
It seems to me that after a certain amount of time, there is an impulse to return to that innocence with the wisdom gained through being an adult and going through the dark night of the soul.
A return to childlike wonder at the world and the grace of innocence is a return to sanity - a feeling of oneness with the world.
This feeling of oneness is a clear channel through which many wonderful things come in to the world.
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