You tell me that you do not want to fall anymore.
You want to rise, only rise.
I tell you the secret of secrets:
This moment cry like a child,
Next moment smile like a child.
This is the way you can rise and rise at every moment.
(Source)

These are the words of a song that Sri Chinmoy wrote expressing the value of having a childlike approach to our spiritual aspirations - cry like a child and smile like a child.

In this weeks meditation exercise, Sri Chinmoy expands on that concept in terms of accessing our inner wealth - the spiritual heart.

The moment you feel that you are a child, you can meditate on the heart. A child will always have someone to take care of him even if his physical parents are not there. God will have somebody to take care of the child, because He feels that the child is helpless right now. When a child cries, immediately someone comes to help him. But when a grown-up person cries, his cry is not even sincere. When a child cries even for a candy, he is very sincere. At that time his candy is the whole world for him. If you give him a hundred-dollar bill, he will not be satisfied; he will only care for his candy. When you feel you are crying like a child for Peace, Light and Truth, and that only those things will satisfy you, then your cry will be fulfilled. (Source)

My path to God will unfold
If my eyes have a smile
Like a child
And if my heart has a cry
Like a child.
- Sri Chinmoy