There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is … - Anthony de Mello

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Let us not see today's troubles as a reason to give up; let us see them as an opportunity for God to deliver.

Anthony de Mello

There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

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