I recently went to a course called 
The Whole Person (Den Hela Människan) led by Bengt Jacobsson, so I will write a few reflections from that course in a series of posts.
According to some schools of thought we learn our values up until we are 7 years of age. I myself learned to help people, to respect the individual, to be curious, observant, cultivated my love for books and writing. I am still that same person. Shaped a bit differently by my life and experiences. But that little wide-eyed girl is still there. And it is so important to go back to that child often and the values we knew were true back then!
“Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy. To him he was always beautiful, and that was all that the little Rabbit cared about. He didn’t mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn’t matter.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
The Passions of EkaLars 