A Vision for Innocence

A Vision for Innocence

We see a world where we know, beyond all doubt and distraction, that we have never done anything wrong; that wrong-doing is something that was taught to us from the time we were young children; that the soul knows not of right and wrong, and that wrongness does not really exist in the larger scheme of things.

In the same way, we see a world where everyone understands that they’ve never made a mistake; where when we look closely at the times when we thought we’d made a mistake, we discovered that we were only acting on the basis of the information we had at the time, prior to the incident. Therefore, we were doing ourselves a huge disservice when we looked back and told ourselves that we were in error. In truth, we couldn’t have acted any differently based on the information we had at the time because we didn’t have the new information that we learned from our experience available to us yet. Accordingly, now we’ve realized that the incidents which we once thought to be mistakes are actually learning experiences meant to help us keep from repeating behaviors that don’t serve us or those around us.

Indeed, who is it that gains when we beat ourselves up over something we thought we’d done in error? No one. And who is it that profits by continuing to carry the weight of their so-called mistakes around with them, like so much excess baggage? Again, no one.

Having seen this, we now live in a world full of happy, well adjusted people because guilt in all its various disguises has been unmasked; it is a world where that which has been revealed from behind the mask of all our “shoulds” and “should nots” is the face of a child, innocent from the day it was born to this Earth, and innocent still.

Indeed, we have learned to be kinder and gentler on ourselves, as well as others, now that our innocence has been reestablished. We no longer judge ourselves so harshly, but instead we forgive. And in doing so, we have returned to the way we felt in our youth, before we learned about right and wrong.