Dan Buehrer
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

forgiveness (especially towards oneself), speaking from the heart, spontaneously being oneself — come as second nature to children.

These attitudes do not always come naturally. They need either a loving community or loving parents and teachers.

“If a child be trained from his infancy, he will, through the loving care of the Holy Gardener, drink in the crystal waters of the spirit and of knowledge, like a young tree amid the rilling brooks. And certainly he will gather to himself the bright rays of the Sun of Truth, and through its light and heat will grow ever fresh and fair in the garden of life.

Therefore must the mentor be a doctor as well: that is, he must, in instructing the child, remedy its faults; must give him learning, and at the same time rear him to have a spiritual nature. Let the teacher be a doctor to the character of the child, thus will he heal the spiritual ailments of the children of men.” https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/selections-writings-abdul-baha/7#943893327