The only thing the absorbent mind needs is the life of the individual; give him life and an environment and he will absorb all that is in it. But, of...

Let us keep before us this image of the child who absorbs everything in the environment, and who, in his mysterious subconscious, fixes it in his...

There are different periods in life when we can acquire different abilities. Little children can do things that older ones are no longer capable of...

The mind of the child takes elements from the environment and incarnates them into his being. This does not happen through heredity, but is the...

During this period of growth [childhood] the child learns spontaneously, without tiring; he observes the things around him (one might even say he...

The child’s mind is completely different from ours: his mind possesses the magnificent and almost miraculous faculty of taking from the environment...

If we study the child better than we have done hitherto, we discover love in all its aspects. Love has not been analysed by the poets and by the...

The Absorbent Mind forms the basis of the society created by man, and we see it in the guise of the gentle and tiny child who soIves by the virtue of...

[The Absorbent Mind] which receives all, does not judge, does not refuse, does not react. It absorbs everything and incarnates it in the coming man...

The Absorbent Mind welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and...