Clarity of Innocence

Life comes from inside!

Everything good comes from within!

People are naturally loving, cooperative, and responsible. That’s who people really are!

If we live from the energy of our own inner world, that’s what we are! Every one of us!

In a pristine world, where hurt isn’t dominating everybody’s lives, we are all on the same page.

Our world

In this world though, we get hurt badly enough to fragment our inner lives.

This happens before we ever leave childhood.

Truth and reality!

People have a flaw. Maybe all life does.

Once we’ve been hurt enough to lose connection with our inner world, we tend to believe only things comfortable for us.

Reality and truth no longer matter to us!

We would rather go up in a cloud of nuclear debris than change our minds!

We are even perfectly content to cause it ourselves.

A few of us won’t abandon truth though!

I don’t know why, but some people still live only truth, even after being hurt.

Truth is clear and obvious most of the time, to a clear mind. It’s not just an opinion.

Being one of the people that accepts only reality is going to be uncomfortable.

We would be living among a population that predominantly believes only comfortable thoughts!

Imagine being one of the very few to first accept that the earth is round, and not the center of the universe!

These concepts are clear and obvious after a little consideration. They just make sense.

Those that immediately accept reality though, are isolated!

They have to live in conflict and disapproval, or else live a lie!

How does such a person survive and lead a normal life?

These differences of opinion do come up between people! Especially for those who live out loud!

When an issue is really important, and danger threatens, how do they warn others, those others who only accept comfortable ideas?

Is it even possible to reach them with reality?

Children’s energy and drive!

Life comes from inside! We can see that! All life is like that!

If we allow their energy to come from within our young as they develop, hurt doesn’t happen, and as adults, they accept and believe only truth.

That’s the way it’s supposed to be!

That doesn’t happen anymore though!

Not in this world!

In this world we insist on teaching our values!

But, most of these values are based on comfort, not truth!

Now we have created a situation!

Inner worlds

We each have a rock-solid identity, right from the moment of conception!

We start out with power (aka self-esteem), instincts, feelings, and awareness of our own needs, all to help our identities cope with life.

People’s needs always begin with the trust of others. This is an ethical and moral high ground.

Left alone we are loving, kind, and playful!

But, that only works if we are allowed to live from the values we hold within!

In this world, we don’t get to do that!

Not now!

Inner hurt

We get taught values. These are usually values derived for somebody’s comfort, not a serious attempt to honor reality.

These values are enforced through punishment.

Our instincts, and awareness of reality and truth have absolutely no chance of surviving this onslaught!

Our overwhelmed identity eventually has no say at all.

That hurts, as you might imagine! We are losing our own life!

So we avoid our feelings, because they hurt now.

Doing that, we live without access to most of our inner life!

Now we will be uncomfortable for life. We have been hurt! We avoid our feelings. That takes energy to do all the time, never letting go!

Without connection with our own needs, we lose the drive to always treat others so that they trust us.

Their response is invariably retaliation.

Then, we no longer trust them. Without connection to our needs, we lose our morals as well.

We are no longer aware that we need others so much, we must behave well.

Teenagers rebel. They know life has gone wrong, but they don’t know exactly how!

Life should have been allowed to come from within!

These days our lives haven’t been allowed to come from within!

We don’t live from our identities!

Living from our inner world would have produced trust and comfort.

But, living from external suggestions and demands produces only ugliness and conflict!

Just look at the destruction!

What is our default answer to every problem that we have accidentally caused through ignoring the wisdom within people?

More rules and punishment!

Which is, of course, a further attempt to make the life force of another come from rules, rather than from the wisdom within itself!

And more rules, of course, further ignores identities, steadily adding even more hurt to the world’s population!

What’s the end result? Russia, or something similar, where everything begins and ends with more rules!

The punishments just keep getting worse, and so does everybody’s behavior!

The more the wisdom of our inner world gets pushed out of the picture, the worse we all behave!

Seriously, that’s the world that managing problems in this way takes us into!

We can see it happening around the world, wherever the solution is always more control and rules!

A solution?

The solution is not mine! It’s nature’s!

Life needs to come from inside!

That’s true for all life!

It’s as true as the world is round, and not the center of the universe!

Do we want our children to become powerful, energetic, loving, non-destructive, moral, highly responsible, and playful adults?

Then leave their development to them!

Support and encourage them as they do it!

If we haven’t noticed, then we should just watch all other life already doing exactly that!

Wonderful qualities are always what’s inside every life! Every one of them! Instincts carry the wisdom of all life!

Let them keep that inner strength, good intentions, and the comfort of real and loving reality!

It works every time. It has to! It’s real!

Thanks for listening.

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Good luck on your own journey.

Take care,

Norm Cormier