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Kasper Hauser looked like an animal, grunted like an animal, ate like an animal and was
greeted by villagers as an animal. Ten years later he was acclaimed a national
hero. Why? Because from beneath the inarticulacy and barbarity, there emerged a
profound clarity of mind which flawed many of the 17th century German
academics and philosophers. He could answer questions that they could not. He
was a scholar of life. But he also had the virtue of simplicity……………………
With out advocating barbaric conditions or animalism, there does seem to be lesson here.
Kasper Hauser had been forced by circumstances to limit his physical needs
totally and because isolated, was oblivious to public opinion. Because of his
natural wisdom could come to surface…………………
But it is a great paradox that simplicity comes from passing through many stages
of learning. It is a complex landscape before reaching a calm, straight,
simple sea. It is the virtue of the spiritually old and yet also it is the
possession of the physically young…………………..
And perhaps most touching of all, it belongs to God, who holds within his
understanding the Ups and Downs of the entire human landscape.
Listening to God’s word is like listening to someone playing a scale on piano,
when he could play a concerto. Just a scale, but done perfectly. This is
Simplicity……………………………………