by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer:  My friend Buckminster Fuller once remarked, “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”

“Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.”
— Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Every child comes into this world in a state of perfection. They are new arrivals in form only; their true essence is as a piece of the infinite consciousness that we call by many names, the most common being “God.” Before they have been exposed to all of the lessons that focus on their limitations, they are a grand source of wisdom and inspiration.

I have spent many an hour in my lifetime gazing into the wise eyes of newborns and asking them to teach me what I have forgotten because I allowed myself to become “de-geniused” along the way. I take every utterance that flows unedited from the mouths of babes and assume it has something to teach me.

The reason little boys and girls are often found to express what we adults call “unparalleled ingenuity” when it comes to matters of the soul, is only because they have not yet been hypnotized by the notion of limitations of any sort. They state precisely what they know to be true for them: They are unconcerned with what anyone else has come to believe, or if what they are saying might not be in agreement with what has come to be common knowledge. They speak from a place of certainty about something that they genuinely feel, and then, most frequently, simply go on with life as a young innocent being. It’s as if, for a brief moment, they don’t experience the earthly reality that surrounds them, but rather have this wondrous awareness of their infinite nature, which they feel completely free to express spontaneously.

It seems to be a universal truth that very young children frequently speak of a connection to another realm, where love, light, and compassion are the dominant themes of their inner remembering.

Young children are filled with Divine spiritual wisdom. I encourage you to spend as much quality time with these new arrivals as possible. Get down on the floor and be with them at their level, as I have done so often myself. Look them directly in the eye and speak to them not as an equal, but as a student inquiring of a spiritual master. A child who feels safe and adored is much more likely to speak of their own unique inner knowings about the world beyond this physical domain.

Throughout my life I have always opted for the company of children over small talk from adults. Tiny newborns are intriguing to me, and playing with little toddlers has always brought me so much joy. The great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky once said, “The soul is healed by being with children.” I believe this is so because children have not yet adopted a set of beliefs about who they are and what is impossible. They live from their soul and, by doing so, remind us adults about who we truly are as well—that is, spiritual beings having temporary human experiences, rather than the reverse.

— Dr. Wayne W. Dyer