Whether they knew it or not, or whether it was intentionally sought out or vicariously observed?
Tell me.
2007-12-19 02:11:29 · 33 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
oops....I meant 'advice', obviously.
Thanks guys.
2007-12-19 14:24:15 · update #1
innerpeacemom: hug your daughter for me.
2007-12-19 15:24:20 · update #2
itchy: come on....spirit of the question...have some fun with me.
2007-12-19 16:56:37 · update #3
Yes the first insight or inquiry into creation and God I saw in myself when I was a child
I asked my father when I was four- "God has created the entire universe and we all live in that.God was always there ; so where did he live when he hadnt created the world?
My father said-"this only God can tell you; you ask him"
2007-12-19 02:26:27 · answer #1 · answered by Aradhana 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Yes.......more than once...here is one I'll never forget:
My (then) 6 year old niece visited me with her mum, shortly after I has finished "bringing in" a text that was so big it was a book. It was a book about universal love.......a way-shower book. When my niece came, she had made me a present.......like little ones do......and when I opened it, it was something made from coloured pipe-cleaners.......it was my car, with me sitting in it as the driver. On the back was something in purple and yellow that looked like a butterfly. I asked her: what is this butterfly doing on the back? She replied.......(and she had no idea I had written this book) "That's not a butterfly. That's the book that shows everyone the way home." My sister and I exchanged looks and a silent but stunned and awed "Wow!"
I still have that car...... If i could, I'd post a picture of it here. That was ten years ago. And that book sat with me for 6 years before I knew what to do with it. I have just spent the last 4 years working on it and I finished it early this year......and am looking for a publisher.
2007-12-20 08:05:34 · answer #2 · answered by Lyra 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It may not come through in typed text like this, but this little utterance from my daughter -- two-and-a-half at the time -- made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
Immediately following an hour of silence in a Quaker meeting, I was having a conversation with a professor of process philosophy. Process philosophy views all "things" as events -- i.e., all nouns as verbs -- and all attributes as adverbs. So, for example, "a red chair" is understood to be "a chair-ing redly."
My daughter joined us from the nursery, and took a seat on my lap. I was suggesting to the professor that there is only ONE event, one Verb, and all phenomenal occurrences are that Event in a certain way -- it's all adverbial. And, since adverbs can modify other adverbs, everything in our experience has the potential of being that one Event lovingly, even if we're in a bad mood, as in (my name being David) I am That Event David-ingly angrily lovingly.
Kind of a clumsy mouthful, I know, but then my daughter summed up the whole conversation in her two-year-old way, by looking at me and saying,
"Hunky-dory is how everything is Make."
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2007-12-20 06:27:48 · answer #3 · answered by bodhidave 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Continually. You know who they allow these moments with? Those who listen with that same essence.
I've lost my status as the adult many times in the presence of child,...and I'm so grateful for that.
Edit:
This is also subjective of what is considered 'spiritual advice'...since that can be the most commonplace of things that strikes a cord in you.
What I've noticed in children is how superb they are at being an observer. The bottom line of getting to the core of your essence and knowing. For example...
My son Zach, following some of the descriptive traits of a crystal/aspergers child didn't talk much until well into his second year. All he would say is "TRUCK", of course you could find him parked in front of the tv watching the history channel. So, language wasn't an issue, he just didn't chose to use it.
One day, we're walking together in the Walmart parking lot (so sue me), and he starts telling me all the makes and models of all the trucks we're passing!!!! Just opened right up and told me what he was doing when he was saying "TRUCK"! (come to think of it, he couldn't read either...I have to tell you that often we're alittle mystified by how he comes up with his what I call 'Zachisms".
This is why I say, it absolutely must resonate with the adult as to what's actually happening, for any good to come of it. Otherwise, the movement doesn't touch the essence in the way that it should. Zach for instance, has been my greatest 'observation' teacher. Yes, I will observe different things. Things of interest to me, but the lesson of it, is there....
INside of a truck. Which, interestingly enough became a big F350 crewking cab truck with an extended box. IT was HUGE! I loved it. Got in touch with my boy side...King of the road! hehehehe...then my vehicles just got bigger. Maybe he's a prophet?
Boy, I'm blathering on your question....Oh, and "Hi Sunman", nice to see you again...
2007-12-20 04:03:57 · answer #4 · answered by shakalahar 4 · 7⤊ 1⤋
My english teacher told my class last year, 'if you want the truth, you can ask three types of people: old people, children, and crazy people--they're the only ones who will give you a straight answer' and i think there really is a lot of wisdom in that statement. Most everyone else will distort the truth in order to protect either themselves or their egos.
Furthermore, people from birth are blessed with a certain amount of truth, but as a child the mind is completely innocent and very vulnerable (My mom tells me stories about how she tricks her first graders into believing outrageous lies like 'the easter bunny won't come to visit you if you arent quiet,' etc). Society today also works to mask much of the truth, especially in its younger citizens, and the child soon learns to try and protect false concepts and identities--part of the process of becoming "mature."
Ask a child a question, and you may be surprised at the truthfulness of the answer :o)
Ask a child what mommy and daddy were doing in bed last night (hehe), and you may find out just how easily influenced they are by the world :-\
2007-12-19 06:31:00 · answer #5 · answered by It's a lamp! 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I am sure this has already been said by someone, they have such an ability to get right to the heart of the matter. We usually did not hide things from my sons as they were growing up. Always when there were issues that seemed so complex to me because of all the human politics & game playing, they were so unaware of all that stuff & would get to the heart of the issue without any pretense. Many times they were confused as to why it seemed so complex to me. Children are not fully trained to see in acceptable standards as we adults are, & therefore are much more free to be and see truth. It would be nice to have the eyes of a child again.
2007-12-24 12:02:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
A baby represents innocence & purity.
Thats what all the nuns & monks try to achieve after becoming grown ups.
I believe that after the genitals become active , any person looses the innocence. Dont believe it, just watch children grow up. Why the teenagers behave erratically?
Sex is the playground of devil who overpowers everybody and snatches the sweetness from the babies.
Life is short, and sex is insatiable, subdue it or loose your life. But alas most choose the wrong path.
2007-12-23 18:16:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Regularly. I reckon just watching children play presents a spiritual insight. And I still listen to my own internal child. It was a child after all who saw the Emperor had no clothes.
2007-12-19 11:29:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have a friend who has a "special needs" daughter and out of the blue one day, without regards to the conversation as it was going, she just told me..."Debra...don't worry, it's all going to be ok." I don't even remember being worried about anything that day. I will take it to heart when I can remember to do so.
2007-12-21 12:54:23 · answer #9 · answered by Bella Wolffe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Children and old people are the least removed from the divine source, ones on the way in the other on the way out. I try to listen even though half the time I don't get what they are saying.
2007-12-19 06:10:09 · answer #10 · answered by Rational Humanist 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Children are sincere and they keep a very good bound with their past before their born. They have a natural knowledge.
I know 2 girls who, when they were very little, were "enemies", in a childes way of course, they are neighbors and when someone asked them way they can't stand each other, one of them told that she was killed the otherone when she was a warrior, and the other one was very afraid of her because she believed that the other wanted to murder her.
Now , when they are 16-17 years old, they are the best friends ever.
Don't you think that it's karma?
......(and , again, sorry for my English, I hope you'll understand me)
2007-12-19 06:34:39 · answer #11 · answered by Claudia A 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋