Monday, May 25, 2026
In my upbringing, you went out and got an education and a job. That was your life purpose. In many ways, that still is a common mission. Can’t you hear it in conventional thinking?
The echoes of “making something of yourself” are what create a vast exterior of inhibition, like you’re being watched and scrutinized by “society” or a god in the sky. Build a life. Go make something of yourself. Go make yourself “useful.” I fell prey to this cunning “wisdom.”
I say, don’t “make yourself” valuable but become vulnerable. That’s the truer direction. I offer that advice with a caveat. Vulnerability is not allowing people to do what they want to you by telling you who you are or labeling you. No one likes being told what to do. The key is not to listen to other people, or your conventional thinking, but to your deepest secrets, the chambers of your heart, that which always leads you to love, service, and freedom.
Our childhoods were spent in a confusing label-making game of being told what to do, who we are, and what is expected of us. That nagging voice creates all sorts of hangups and misconceptions. Guilt is not a good look on anyone.
These inhibiting ways fade and shed, as the truth of who you are is born – usually later in life. You’ll start paying attention to what you like, what you enjoy, what makes you feel free, robust, and joyfully uninhibited.
And the child within will move towards new, inward, awakening proclivities. As inhibition sheds, innateness blooms, and the child comes forth, not weak, but transparently soft, gentle, playful, and loving. This is the great mission, not going out and making something of yourself but becoming truer.
What do you have to lose but the lie without?
What do you have to gain but the Truth within?