The children are teaching...be quiet and learn.

NASA scientists can launch their satellites and Head of States can run their countries but it is the 10 year olds of the world who have the most pre-occupied brains on earth. They have thoughts about the universe to think and matters such as life and death to contemplate.

When they grow up, they somehow don't have too much time for such things. The immediete happenings around them take up too much brain power. Where do they have entire hot summer days to wonder how big the universe is or whether time travel is a possibility? Is there really a God? Is he really a man? If God cares about us then why does he let us suffer sometimes? What happens to us when we fall asleep? Where do our dreams come from? These are usually the territory of little minds.

Then of course, there are those people who grow up but never stop pondering upon such matters...they are the ones who eventually figure many things out for themselves. The others either ponder no more or only give the questions of life a passing thought between tired days, aching minds, sticky relations and threats of war. When people are focused on slaughtered millions, they can't possibly spare time to think about death and after-life. The answer is not to retreat from the world and become a 'yogi' but to keep spirituality alive even in the midst of the ugly quagmire that our reality can sometimes be.

Chilren sit for hours and hours thinking over many important questions about life. So many questions... and at that age the answers to then seem so very important, even urgent. Later during the desperate struggle to survive and reach the top, these questions appear silly, irrelavant..who cares? Hack your soul away and banish it...what use is it anyway, right? You can't see it, you can't use it...why think about it? What use is spirituality? Just follow your religion blindly and you're guaranteed a seat on the 9 o' clock super-express to heaven, right?

Religiousness does not equate to spirituality...some people find spirituality in their religion. Some people don't give spirituality a second thought.

The brain is the most sophisticated intrument ever created. Feed it, nourish it...answer the questions it asks you...give it a little peace once in a while.

And then snap out of it and dive headfirst right back into the wrestling match that is life; with a new sharpness, passion and speed.