INNOCENCE
Nothing is more attractive than the innocence of a new-born
child. I believe that different faces tell different stories of good and evil,
knowledge and experience, nobleness and corruption, simplicity and cunningness,
guilt and innocence.
The French writer Voltaire (1694-1778) said: Face is the
index of the mind.
It is also difficult to decide what is innocence and what is
not innocence. According the English poet-dramatist William Shakespeare
(1564-1616) : “ There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Different religions, societies, governments and moral systems
have different views about innocence and guilt. Yet there is a way out to
distinguish between good and evil, crime and the right deed. In certain cases:
the heart is the best judge; conscience is another.
Experience makes people knowledgeable, not guilty. An experience
which destroys your innocence is not worth having.
Innocence is the purity of the soul. So long as your soul is
chaste, you are innocent.
Ignorance is not innocence. It is stupidity. Morally inspired
knowledge is innocence.
The German poet, mystic and philosopher George Philipp
Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, pen name Novalis (1772-1801) said: “ Innocence and ignorance are sisters.
But there are noble and vulgar sisters. Vulgar innocence and ignorance are
mortal, they have pretty faces, but wholly without expression, and of a transient
beauty; the noble sisters are immortal. Their lofty forms are unchangeable, and
their countenances are still radiant with the light of paradise. They dwell in
heaven, and visit only the noblest and most severely tried of mankind. “
Finally, this famous quote: A clear and innocent conscience
fears nothing. Power is no bless in itself, except when it is used to protect
the innocent. It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an
innocent one. The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”
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G.R.Kanwal
24 September 2024
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