Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast
Interpretation
Language can often complicate our understanding rather than clarify it.
Aunt Beast's quote suggests that while language is intended to communicate thoughts and ideas, its inherent limitations can lead to confusion and complexity. The simplicity of a childβs language highlights how intricate the process of meaningful communication can be, indicating that the essence of thoughts can sometimes get lost in translation.
In practice
In a discussion about education and children's understanding of complex issues.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.
It is racist, and it was racist when it was created. The Indian Act controls, or seeks to control, the lives of all indigenous people in a way that you and I would never accept.
The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us
Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti were barely able to write. The first emperors of the Tang and Sung dynasties were crude. Genghis Khan, man of his epoch and favored by heaven, knew only how to hunt the great eagle. They are all gone. Only today are we men of feeling.
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
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