The Return of Childhood

Scripture tells us: unless you become as a child, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. By child, it means not mere youth of years, but a consciousness unburdened—where the weight of self-awareness does not press, where the chains of human opinion hold no sway.

A child gazes in wonder at a dung beetle, at the dewdrop clinging to a blade of grass. She does not obstruct them, does not judge—she simply watches in stillness. There is no urgency in her, no fear of what others might say. Here dwells no accounting, no abyss of dread, no shadow of doubt. This lightness of being—this is the soul's true nature: joy without thought, peace without question.

When the mind falls silent in waking, there returns that clarity we have lost. Doubt, fear, the whisper of 'what will people say'—these shatter all gods within us. Remove these, and consciousness dissolves into the ocean of love, where the self merges into the Divine, becomes one with it.

To reclaim childhood is to return to that truth—where we know ourselves to dwell in God's presence, in God's heart, one with God himself.