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Ep. 19 – Improbable and Magical: A Tribute To G.K. Chesterton
Alan Watts Being in the Way
A Child's Vision of Life
When you fully realise that to be surprised at everything is high wisdom, you get a new point of view towards the world which gives you almost what could be called a child's vision of life. Jesus said that unless you would be converted and become as a child, you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. This is the thing that Chesterton understood in a very profound way because to a child, the world is entirely new and therefore all of it is extraordinary. And when he thought about this, he realized two things that are not ordinarily realized by religious people. He realized that the world created by God is a form of nonsense. One of the most important features of the divine mind is human
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