This openhearted curiosity, this aura of astonishment, becomes an antidote to the spiritual poison most corrosive to the world - cynicism, that supreme enemy of hope. These are manifest indicators of a human being with immense potential. Fully understand your enormous value in the scheme of things because the planet needs people like you, smart young creatives full of awe, who can minister to the world with positive, mischievous energy, young people who seek spiritual enrichment and who see hatred and disconnection as the corrosive forces they are. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being. Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world. Visit galleries and look at paintings, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts - be a little vampire running around the place sucking up all the art and ideas you can. ![]() Read the big stuff, the challenging stuff, the confronting stuff, and read the fun stuff too. Du Bois’s advice to his teenage daughter and with David Bowie’s idea of perfect happiness, Cave writes: How to harness youth’s centripetal curiosity as a creative force for bettering the world is what Nick Cave - himself an insightful reckoner with the art of growing older - explores in answering a 13-year-old boy’s question about how to live a full, creative, actualized, spiritually rich life in “a world ridden with so much hate, and disconnect.” Nick Cave There is a lovely symmetry between this orientation to the winter of life and the natural state of its springtime - in youth, curiosity unfurls centripetally from the self to the world, touching more and more facets of it with that electric jolt of discovery when everything is new and interesting and dazzling with delight. ![]() ![]() “Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life,” Bertrand Russell counseled in his timeless advice on how to grow old.
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