We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.

The word humility (also human) is derived from the Latin humus, meaning the soil. Perhaps this is not simply because it entails stooping and returning to earthly origins, but also because, as we are rooted in this earth of everyday life, we find in it all the vitality and fertility unnoticed by people who merely tramp on across the surface, drawn by distant landscapes.

If we live in the here and now, each moment is a surprise, every instant a new wonder. But it often fails to work this way. Onto the present we superimpose our expectations and opinions, based on the past or future. We meet someone, and we already anticipate what he/she will be like and what they will say.

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.

Being kind is the simplest way to become who we really are.

The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.