“I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.”
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Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
