We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
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"It's easy to mistake being innocent for being simpleminded or naive. We all want to seem sophisticated; we all want to seem street-smart. To be innocent is to be "out of it."
Yet there is a deep truth in innocence. A baby looks in his mother's eyes, and all he sees is love. As innocence fades away, more complicated things take its place. We think we need to outwit others and scheme to get what we want. We begin to spend a lot of energy protecting ourselves. Then life turns into a struggle. People have no choice but to be street-smart. How else can they survive?
When you get right down to it, survival means seeing things the way they really are and responding. It means being open. And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades."
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.
We have been called naive as if it were a dirty word
We have been called innocent as though with shame our cheeks should burn
So We visited with the careful idols of cynicism to learn to sneer and pant and walk
so as not to feel the scales of judgment rub wrongly
But we say,
some things must remain simple
some things must remain untouched and pure
And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.
No mask like open truth to cover lies,
As to go naked is the best disguise.
We are encouraged to see honest people as naive, as potential losers.
to be the person who we long to be — we must again be vulnerable. We must take off the armor, put down the weapons, show up, and let ourselves be seen.
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.
Have the courage to take off your mask and be humbled.
...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.
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For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.
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