The Inner Child Is No Child
Contrary to what many believe, the inner child has nothing to do with the past or age. It is simply a metaphor for the self before it was shrouded in veils of identities. It is merely a metaphor for our natural state of being, for our essence, which is still hidden beneath personality, conditioning, and trauma. For a self that does not see itself as separate, for a pure, unassimilated self that does not identify with illusions. As Jesus said, the kingdom of heaven is within us, but we can only enter it as children. Or as Nietzsche said: “But tell me, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-propelled wheel, a first movement, a sacred ‘Yes.’ Yes, for the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred ‘Yes’ is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.” The inner child is you, the true you, without the illusions with which it confuses itself.