Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast
Interpretation
Language can often complicate our understanding rather than clarify it.
Aunt Beast's quote suggests that while language is intended to communicate thoughts and ideas, its inherent limitations can lead to confusion and complexity. The simplicity of a childβs language highlights how intricate the process of meaningful communication can be, indicating that the essence of thoughts can sometimes get lost in translation.
In practice
In a discussion about education and children's understanding of complex issues.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.
The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.
A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.
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