A small child is still full of wond

A small child is still full of wonder and veneration towards the world. Like a
butterfly visiting the flowers in a meadow, it explores everything around him in full trust
and with shining eyes. Little sounds of delight are accompanying every new discovery.
Later on as the child grows this veneration for theouter world can turn towards a human
being. The heart is pounding, the words cannot be found, the voice is shaking as the
growing child meets a person it reveres. This soul quality of veneration later on in life is
the first condition on the path towards spiritual science ( How to Know Higher Worlds by
Rudolf Steiner). There the capacity for veneration is guided towards veneration for the
truth and knowledge.