“Except ye become as little children”, Christ said. What is good about the state of childhood is that the soul is still unspent: there is gratitude for even the most modest gifts of this world and life and, moreover, an unconscious but genuine trust in God. The aging person tends to see everything in relation to a whole universe; whereas when a child takes joy in a flower, only the flower is there. Both kinds of experience — for each has its justification — are joined in the spiritual person’s sense of the sacred, of the heavenly and divine archetypes.
Schuon, Letter of 11 June 1983, to Titus Burckhardt.