The Hive

time, but summer evenings are wonderful with all the sounds and scents of a true pastorale-lake-breath and meadow-lands, the whole sky to look at, and the murmuring dissonance of

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case, they are not so interesting for a while afterward. John is coming nine now and is writing "action" stories with all the worn and regulation props and settings. The early tendency will return with a dimension added. All t

inculcated in their lives, without pain and strain to them, and with great profit to t

ne more to make for vacuousness and drivel than any other visionless point of view, none of which has been missed. There is a difference in ages, to be sure. The child's mind has not massed for use the external impacts of twenty or thirty years of life in the world, but there is also an Immortal within-a singer, hero, builder, or a

, folded hands between his knees-a little six pointed star-head and shoulders the three upper points, knees with folded hands between, the three lower. He was bare from the waist up and thighs down, and brown as the honey of buckwheat.... I told him that the seventh and perfect point of his star was within; that if he shut his eyes and kept very still, putting away for the present all his thoughts about himself, his feelings

hild-mind attains to concentration so essential for all original production. The little ones have no mad emotional lists to sort out and subdue; their wants are simple "yes" and "no" in so many

babe's softness left to it, and glorious sunlight. He opened his eyes at last say

ster spoiled by a fly bite.... Tom will search for his Star every day. It is strange that

we are by no means masters of ourselves, nor capable of significant achievement until the brain can be stilled

e saddle with one hand, the bridle-rein in the other. A year or two ago I should have been afraid to permit that, but we manage now to relieve the young ones of a large part of ou

not let them dwell in thought of pain. We do not permit tears. We inform them early that to be sick is a

at the great billiardists and tennis and baseball players perform feats in higher space, whether they know it or not. There is the essential ideal first in the making of the athlete as in the making of the poet. The great moments of play req

of actual lesion and sickness. The more you develop the spirit of a child, or rather give the significant One within an opportunity to come forth and be the child, the more you make for beauty, health, goodness and glory of bodily life.... A lucky day when you start really to

ters developed in a year, by training the mind from the centre of origins outward, that mental training alone could never accomplish. The mind itself becomes vigo

e child is to teach him to sit and listen

n the laws and rules of yesterday. The young people whom I serve live in a different intensity. Their interest flags if I repeat, if I fall into familiar rhythms. Continually they spur me on. I think,

have shown how all else betrays-how all matter is a mockery at the last-that even love and friendship fail for those who are called to weep an

they were-when they did any rare and improved bit of work, when they felt like great comrades, met some magnanimous impulse, arose to super

for this freedom; we suffer and adore-to get out of ourselves. Mental teachings tie us in more firmly. The teaching here-and no two days alike-is to startle and encourage the young minds to arise and live and breathe in that lov

o. A snort will answer your sanctimoniousness; flexible science will reply to the abysses of your logic.... You must be the consummate artist if never before in your life, to teach the beauty of the soul to youth. The young workers of the

next day he puts another in his place and begs to be allowed a cushion in the midst of the children.... We hold them by setting them free-the first law of love. All unions of the future-in tr

d no two d

ent notes seemed to contain the secret of putting off all fret and fear and unrest. He seemed to ask if I had not done

nliness, to think no thought, to perform no action second-rate-to begin with the Laugh again-the warm laugh of conquest that always opens some inner door to fresh powers-to arise afresh in the glory and gamble of