The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
I am still every age that I have been.
Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be . . .
This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages . . . the delayed adolescent, the childish adult, but that they are in me to be drawn on; to forget is a form of suicide . . .
Far too many people misunderstand what putting away childish things means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I’m with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don’t ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child’s awareness and joy, and be fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup.

Art: Reina Yamada
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It’s sad to me when I give reign to my inner child, and I watch the faces of those who are in the path of her purity, her love.
It’s my responsibility to be in environments which are safe to give and receive pure, innocent love. Unmolested by lower vibrational energies.
If my inner child is afraid to show her face because of judgement, I won’t bring her around. I won’t BE around others who are unsafe for my inner, fully loving and accepting, inner child.






