To discover our child within is the most challenging thing we can do.

To discover our child within is the most challenging thing we can do. Because in order to discover our child, we must be free from all external control or influence. This means that we must free our mind from all that it has collected, all that it clings to, all that it depends on. This begins by realising that we are in a psychological prison created by our own minds. Until we begin to realise how confined we are, we will not be able to find our way out. Neither will we find our way out by struggling against the confines we have inherited from our parents, society, and culture. It is only by beginning to examine and realise the falseness within our minds that we begin to awaken an intelligence that originates from beyond the realm of thinking, our child within.

If our recovery is to be meaningful, it must deliver us from all forms of dependence—including the dependence on dissociations—and help awaken within us that creative spark which we aspire to. For the culmination of our recovery lies not only in discovering our inherent unity and freedom, but also in opening the way for our child within to express itself through us in a unique and creative way. Such uniqueness and creativity is not to be found in anything we have ever created before, nor is it to be found in our ideals of human perfection or utopian dreams.

True recovery arises when we have broken free of all the old structures, all addictive dependencies, and all fear. Only then can that which is truly unique and fearless arise within us and begin to express itself, Our intuitive voice Such expression cannot be planned or even imagined because it belongs to a dimension uninhibited by anything that has come before it. True recovery is not trying to fit in or be understood, nor is it a revolt against anything. It is an uncaused phenomenon. Consciously or unconsciously all aspire to it, but very few find the courage to step into that infinity of our child within.