“This Easter I’m vowing not to think at all”
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010Walter Kirn writes in the New York Times Magazine, April 4, 2010:
“They certainly weren’t born of thought, my son and daughter. Nor do they live by thought, when I come to think of it. So this Easter I’m vowing not to think at all.”
Kirn has noticed, since his childhood, how problematical adult, rational thinking can be, and how it seems to defy observable reality. “Rational thinking” in fact seems to often be “irrational thinking.”
He’s on to something important. If he is able to watch and delight in his children, without any thoughts in his head, he is indeed enjoying what “truth” is, and it’s not contained in any concept.