We can only love them to the extent we love and respect our inner self our inner child. Children all throughout history have been the most harmed, oppressed, exploited and helpless class of human beings . We constantly cripple children's confidence, creativity, passion, and free spirit out of ignorance, fears and insecurities, but pretend we want them to grow into independent, self-confident, powerful adults. No wonder our human evolution has been so slow until now. If we could only get a momentary glimpse of our adult world through their eyes see what they see and feel, we would be shocked, that our life would be radically and irreversibly transformed.
Children are the key to our species evolution.
Adults are lost children who have no chance of evolving unless they get in touch with their inner child and help other children not to become lost. We adults have to prove to children that we are not mean and cruel by nature, be we are simply lost and we recognize that. We need children to help us recover inner wisdom that they can access more easily and more directly. We need to encourage them to forgive our stupidity and not feel hurt anymore by our ignorance and arrogance. Teaching however, has to be in the form of humbly sharing our experiences rather than transmitting objective knowledge.