How Children Possess Great Wisdom (WD)

When my daughter Sommer was about two years of age, and just beginning to talk with her own unique pronunciation of words, she approached a woman in her early 20s who was visiting our home, pointed directly at her stomach, and said, ‘I see dat baby in dare.’ Years later we found out the young woman had just discovered that she was pregnant, and had made her own decision to terminate that unwanted pregnancy because she had been assaulted several months earlier. 

I have said many times to audiences all over the world ‘if prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.’ I cannot explain why so many children seem to have such highly developed intuitive powers that allow them to say the things they do. I do know that stories about the mystic-like wisdom that flow from our children provide fascinating anecdotal evidence of intelligence from a spiritual dimension experienced prior to their arrival here on Earth. I have often said that when you learn to trust yourself, you are actually trusting in the very wisdom that created you. From their earliest efforts at talking and cognizing, children have no one else to trust in but themselves. They feel something inside and blurt it out, and all those who hear these sagacious words are befuddled and mystified. They are truly trusting in the same infinite wisdom that brought them from the formless world of Spirit into this physical world of beginnings and endings. 

As adults, it is a common misconception to view children as if they were “apprentice people” on their way to becoming fully human when they ultimately arrive at adulthood. I urge you to begin to look at all children as spiritual beings, offspring of an infinite system with all of the wisdom, powers, and capacities of the Source from which they originated. Every person is whole and complete in the now, regardless of the chronological age of the body. Consequently, no one has any more claim to being wiser simply because they are bigger and older. 

With this kind of reprogramming, you can treat each young person you encounter with all of the respect due an evolved spiritual master. Rather than assuming that a child is too immature to have anything of real merit to offer, listen carefully instead, and then engage them if they are willing to expand upon anything that they have offered. 

Every time I gaze at a newborn, I converse silently with them in awe of the wisdom that is their very essence. I suggest that as you look at a young child, you see the unfolding of an infinite consciousness before you. Trust that they have something of great value to offer you, particularly since they have not yet learned to doubt themselves. 

I have always considered each of my children as my teacher on the subject of their own innate knowings, particularly when they speak of mystical or spiritual matters. Who am I to question what they feel deep within them, particularly when they are willing to express it in an atmosphere of loving acceptance? 

When it comes to any child who speaks about matters that are esoteric and in the spiritual domain, I implore you to view them not as the musings of an uninformed little person, but as a fountain of great wisdom. 

— Dr. Wayne W. Dyer