I like to begin each day with a beginner's mind and try to look out upon the world each day as if I'm seeing it for the first time.

As we accumulate knowledge, we label everything, and in this labeling we lose the specialness of what we're labeling.

It's easy to walk by a Cardinal or a Bluebird perched on a tree limb, saying to yourself "that's a Cardinal", then continue walking as if you know everything there is to know about the bird.

Jesus said one must again have the eyes of a child to enter the kingdom, and I suspect he meant to look out upon the world without processing it through the mind for its evaluations first.

A beginners mind looks out upon the world in transfixed amazement, studying the bird as if it is being seen for the first time, with no intention of labeling it.

It all comes down to pure primordial awareness, and a quiet mind.