when we regain our child, we balance pragmatic wisdom…
Page 166 keyword itself when we regain our child, we balance pragmatic wisdom with inspiration. Our life becomes holy natural and we are sources of strength to those we touch. We enjoy our gift of emancipated, child like innocence with its ready laughter and easy tears. This desirable state resembles what many religious traditions call enlightenment. Charles Whitfield define the child within as our real self. Is that part of us that is totally alive, vital, creative, spontaneous, and fulfilled. He explained that when the child within is not permitted to flourish and be its real self, a false or co-dependent self-emerges that learns to adapt and take on the victim role. Our child's feelings once were minimized through belittling, discrediting, and withholding love. Usually we have repressed a great deal about our childhood and our home environment. We want to be loyal to our families, and, at some level, we realize they did the best they could. Although it is true they did the best they could, nevertheless, our child was terribly hurt in the process. Maybe we are a little bit afraid of uncovering some of these painful early findings, so we compensate. We denied what is true and bury ourselves and work, or busyness, very refusing to admit our feelings we pass a little prison sentence on ourselves. And, we pass on to our children the wounds we received, not because we want to come up because we know no other way. We also deny ourselves the healing love that can flow backward into the past and forward and to the future.
— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk) · What are you doing with the rest of your life by paying harden