Every Prisoner Was Once A Child

There are billions of emotionally and psychologically troubled people in this world, but they all began as little children, and little children are very rarely born with emotional or psychological problems.

Children, for the most part, are born with a blank slate. Being raised with the rare and true quality of love, which embodies patience, understanding and kindness, gives children a real fighting chance to off-set the tremendous pressure to conform to the craziness imposed by the world outside the home.

But if the parents are as mad as the outside world, what chance does a child have?

Some children are weak in constitution and will simply conform. Most die that way, except for a few lucky ones. The brighter souls rebel at the imposition though they almost always fail to be creative in the rebellion, and so end up just as crazy, mad, impatient and violent as the object of the rebellion in spite of not wanting to be. The jails and mental institutions are filled with these, though most are doomed to life in the jail cell of their thinking mind.

But teach the conformist or the rebel two things and they can recover. Stop resenting the madness seen around them, because resentment is the singular most dangerous emotion that makes you just as mad, crazy and violent as what you resent. You must also come to see how who you have become identified with is an impostor self implanted within you, mainly by your resentment, which displaced the real you.

Resentment opens the portal of your mind and allows infection and infestation to enter in. That is how evil works, it tempts you to hate it, and when you do it gets inside you and grows up in you. It is for this reason that Jesus said "do not hate your enemy, overcome them with good" He was warning you about not opening your mind to evil, which is exactly what resentment does.

Through resentment you have grown up to become like the very thing you hated outside yourself, but drop resentment and learn to be still, learn to watch your reactions to people, places and things, and the power of self observation will begin to separate you from your imposed conditioning. In this way, you will recover from that conditioning and grow into the self you were meant to be.

Your connection to the love within was lost through negative reaction to things outside yourself. But, and this is the good news, love is restored within as you drop negative reaction to things . At this moment, stop looking outside yourself for anything; not for love, not for understanding. The only thing truly meaningful is found within you; in the quiet stillness between your thoughts. Watch your thoughts often and always cultivate the stillness between them. Allow the stillness to grow and in this way you will reconnect with Love, even as you disconnect from the imposed conditioned self you were never meant to be. Seek and you will find when you do, your life will change for the better and will unfold and flower from within into the self you were always meant to be.