Mature, but not sophisticated, still childlike and successful, but not vain, still a normal heart. Those who have two minds at the same time, I call them the heart of wisdom.
Naivety and maturity are not mutually exclusive. It is entirely possible that a person's mind is mature enough to face up to and bear the hardships of life, but his mind is still simple and he is still interested in the world like a child. I don't think that numbness, rigidity and sophistication are maturity, and real maturity should be the ability to grow, so rather, it always contains childlike innocence in essence.
The value of children lies in simplicity, because simplicity is not ashamed of ignorance, and because simplicity is not taboo. These two points are important characteristics of wisdom. On the contrary, prejudice and greed are the enemies of wisdom. Prejudice makes people content with a little knowledge, live in complacency and self-sufficiency, and can't see their ignorance.
The greed for profit makes people worry a lot, blindly follow the popular views in society and fail to see the truth of the matter. This is the tragedy of many adults. However, if a person can keep a childlike innocence and be good at thinking at the same time, he can avoid this sad ending and turn a simple wisdom into mature wisdom in the process of growing up.
It can be seen that wisdom is closely related to childlike innocence, which is actually a mature childlike innocence that will not be easily lost. The Bible says, "If you do not return and become children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven." Pascal said, "Wisdom takes us back to childhood." Mencius also said: "Adults and gentlemen, don't lose childlike innocence." That's what I said.
Childhood is the source of soul growth. I even want to say that the soul is nothing more than a mature childlike innocence and will not be lost because of maturity. The little prince in the fairy tale written by Saint Exupery put it well: "What makes the desert look beautiful is where it hides a well." Happy are those who have been taking a good life path with their childhood. Because there is an inexhaustible source of love hidden in their hearts, the most desolate desert has become a beautiful scenery.
Q: What makes people look young? For example, many people think you look young.
A: I think perhaps the most important thing is that one's mind should not be too complicated. I am still relatively simple socially, and I don't do things I don't understand. I believe that a simple person will look young, and a sophisticated person will look old.
In the eyes of children, the world is unchanged. In the eyes of the world, children are old in the blink of an eye.
TV camera: The mother told the little boy how to use a knife and fork. The little boy asked, "but where shall I put the food?"
When adults are obsessed with small problems, children often get into substantive problems at once.
Appreciate:
The title of the article is Childlike Heart, which is actually discussing how a person can keep a childlike heart forever. What is childlike innocence? The second paragraph has a clear answer: simple mind and childlike innocence to the world.
The so-called wisdom is nothing more than childlike innocence and peace of mind. After clarifying these two concepts, the author further discusses the important role of childlike innocence in life: because of childlike innocence, people can think well, have wisdom, lose prejudice and greed for interests; Because of childlike innocence, people will "have an inexhaustible source of love hidden in their hearts" and finish their life journey happily and young.
In fact, each of us has a childlike innocence or once had a childlike innocence, but we can always keep it, but not too much. As the article said, with the growth of life experience and the frequent occurrence of difficulties and setbacks, we may become "numb, rigid and sophisticated". Over time, we will lose a childlike innocence that we should not have lost.
According to most people, it may be a kind of "maturity". However, this maturity makes us never feel fresh about life, and never show obvious likes and dislikes about the beautiful or ugly things in life. What is even more frightening is that my own career lacks creativity, inquiry and wisdom.
In the final analysis, this is not true maturity, because mature people can not only "face up to and bear the hardships of life, but also keep their minds simple." In other words, they are full of love and confidence in life and have always given life hope and longing. Even if we encounter many misfortunes and setbacks, we will not be discouraged or feel inferior, as if life is always a "beautiful scenery", which will always make people feel fresh and beautiful.
It's like children walking into a dazzling array of department stores or into beautiful and refreshing nature. Therefore, the author believes that "wisdom is closely related to childlike innocence" and "it is a mature childlike innocence that will not be easily lost". If you want to be wise, you must have a true childlike innocence.
The article also talks about the reason why a person is young, and thinks that the main reason is "don't be too complicated." Complexity here is different from the wisdom of innovative inquiry mentioned above, which refers to "social affairs" and should be "simple" and "don't do it if you don't understand"
To be clear, it is to use wisdom to discover and explore the world. In life, we should communicate with people as simply as possible. Don't have too many ideas to make us look sophisticated and complicate the original simple problems. It not only consumes time and energy, but also affects our wisdom in doing business, making us older than our actual age.
The last two paragraphs have profound philosophy, which means that the world is simple and unchanging, with childlike innocence. Not as complicated and changeable as adults, nor as adults who have lost their childlike innocence.
However, childlike innocence is easily lost with age, and people without childlike innocence are old. The "TV lens" in the last paragraph is actually an example used to illustrate the value of childlike innocence in the article.
After reading the article, we will probably have an experience. Is it an argumentative paper? Or an essay? In my opinion, style is not the main thing, the key is that it can enlighten us, arouse our thinking and let us understand the importance of maintaining childlike innocence, which is enough. As for style, different people have different opinions, so be it.
Extended data:
Zhou was born in July 1945. 1962 to 1968, studied in the philosophy department of Peking University, and was assigned to the deep mountains and forests of Guangxi after graduation. 1978 was admitted to the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and obtained the master's degree and doctor's degree. He is currently an associate researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
In-depth study of Nietzsche and his philosophy and aesthetic theory, publishing translations and monographs; He wrote several philosophical papers. His works are full of wisdom of life, integrating rationality and passion, with fresh and natural style, which is deeply loved by readers.
His main works are: Nietzsche: The Turn of the Century, Man and Eternity, Nietzsche and Metaphysics, Collected Works of Zhou, Niu Niu-A Father's Notes, and Looking into the Distance. The main translations are: Selected Works of Nietzsche's Aesthetics, Selected Poems of Nietzsche and Twilight of Idol.
Selected sentences in Zhou's prose
In my opinion, when Socrates defended in court, he said that "unexamined life has no value", which revealed the fundamental mission of philosophy, that is, to explore the meaning of life and live a meaningful life.
Socrates concluded: "It's time to break up. I will die, and you will live. Only God knows whose way is good. " Philosophers' humor and philosophy stand out. Mo Luoya quoted the philosopher Santayana as saying: "Nine tenths of love is caused by the lover himself, and one tenth depends on the loved one."
For an energetic person, love and loneliness are enjoyment. The last sentence of Mo Luoya's book is wonderful: "If happiness is analyzed into basic atoms, we can also see that it is formed by struggle and distress, and only this kind of struggle and distress will have hope forever." ...
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Zhou prose