Learning and Growth And Two Ways of Being

Many of my struggles have involved learning and growth, and how to tap into a kind of faith in the unfolding...

Within us there exists this inner life that learns and grows through play. As tiny children we learn to move, we learn to talk in this manner. Part of our being or our makeup drives us in this direction, and we become fluent in our movements or in our language.

And then there is another way of being, a way of attempted learning through shame, punishment, guilt, and rewards. We use violence either inflicted upon others or inflicted upon ourselves in an attempt to learn and grow. We pay a high price for this method of learning, as people suddenly become authoritarians, obstacles, threats.

What's worse is when we suddenly start to apply this aggression toward ourselves. We somehow no longer have faith in our Inner Life that has always existed within us since we were born. We try to act as if we are God toward ourselves, and use a very destructive shaming God to get us to conform. No longer do we honor the light playful way of growth and being.

Inner Life just Is. And it will continue to attempt to unfold, even if we somehow try to intervene or even get in the way. It's my belief that part of our spiritual path is to find our way back to this way of being... A way of being that has faith in and honors our inner lives, while also having faith in and honoring the inner lives of others. And we learn that when we honor the inner life of another, we are really honoring part of our own inner life: Souls love to see Souls. Seeing is nourishment.