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Disproportionate pursuits
Adults aren't disappointing because they have grown bigger, or got jobs, or taken on responsibilities.
- Adults are disappointing because we have forgotten how to see the world as it actually is. We see people as statistics, education as functional, food as fuel, clothing as utilitarian, religion as morality.
- We over-value what we can experience with the senses. We work over our books, counting everything up, claiming ownership, and fail to see that we live in a whole, wild universe.
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"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, THE LITTLE PRINCE
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We were all children
Keeping this in mind is not nostalgia, but rather an embrace of all that has gone into making up a full-grown human being.
The past is part of who we are. We are made up of imagination and memory and dearly-won virtues.
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Invisible bond of love
“People have forgotten this truth,” the fox said. “But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
To have perfect love, we have to become children again ...
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The well in the desert
“What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, “is that somewhere it hides a well…” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
To the Little Prince, the desert is not about the harsh realities of survival or what the eye can see. A desert ...
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Daring to love
If we care for one another, we deny ourselves and may even sometimes get hurt. It is worth the risk. The cost of not daring to love is to miss the point of our existence entirely.
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