Children Quote by Octavio Paz
““He is astonished at the fact of his being, and this astonishment leads to reflection: as he leans over the river of his consciousness, he asks himself if the face that appears there, disfigured by the water, is his own. The singularity of his being, which is pure sensation in children, becomes a problem and a question””
![“[...] this observing self often kills and withers anything that is under its scrutiny. The individual has now a persecuting observer in the very core of his being. It may be that the child becomes possessed by the alien and destructive presence of the observer who has turned bad in his absence…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/820/r-d-laing-4-155404_child-psychology_this-observing-self-often-kills-and-with_1378915.jpg)
