TO BE A CHILD OR TO BECOME LIKE A CHILD?

“Let the young children alone, and do not try to stop them from coming to me for the Kingdom of the Heavens belongs to such ones.”

The man who has a naive belief in his first contacts with the spiritual world has not become like a child; he is simply a child and never left that spiritual childhood of the naive believe.

The non-believer, on the other hand, stopped being a child and did not become an adult. He passed from a healthy childhood to an unhealthy infantilism, not seeing behind his scepticism, the supreme Reality, the Source of all existences.

Only the wise man of the things of the spirit has acquired genuine maturity and can become like a child.

The true wisdom of the spiritual experience is to be a childish adult, however paradoxical it may be, because the experienced man at the level of the supreme Reality acquired a pearl of simple wisdom, diaphanous, calm, away from all sophistication, wisdom full of security which is beyond all loud and proud discussions of the analytical intelligence. This man is not a scholar, but a learned man. It may be that this man did not know many things, like the man-encyclopedia, but knows a lot - his knowledge is quality and not quantity. He is not an archive of juxtaposed and disconnected knowledge - his knowledge is of a panoramic view, who knows the exact place of every creature in the Universe.

The wise and learned man is always serenely dynamic and calm; he does not need to run in a hurry to and from to get the materiality of life - he feels like in a vast plain of sunlight, covering both all latitudes and longitudes around him; although a pilgrim on planet Earth always is at the end of all his journeys.

And that's why a man like this, lives in this dynamic peace, of tranquil security, which seems to strike all who approaches him.

To know how to become like a child in full manhood is a divine art, a mystical charisma, it is the cosmic wisdom.

We should not stay like children but become like children after we are adults. This second phase of infancy, created freely by grown man, is the ultimate test of his adulthood. Who, as an adult, is not be able to become as if he or she were a child, is not fully mature in its evolution. And that childhood is fully conscious, not an unconscious one, much less a pseudo conscious infantilism.

To be like a child, not by natural ignorance, but by the wisdom acquired with experience. It is to overcome not only the subconscious mind of the infant but also the conscious mind of the youth and to enter into the cosmic super consciousness.