World Wide Perspective: The Truth of Our Nature
When we think about our natural nature, we might think about our personality, our strengths, talents, skills, abilities, thinking style, intellect and, in general, our competence, our childhood preferences and interests or maybe just what others have told us about our nature. Maybe we would define it through our education, our careers or all our areas that made us of make us feel successful. It could also be that our family, those closest to us in the beginning, had issues with our natural nature because they feared it, misunderstood it, couldn't define it and thought it best to stamp it out or dismiss us because of it. Maybe we have carried that fear and memory of feeling as if it wasn't safe to be truly WHO WE ARE! Some families insist that we think just like they do, if we are a true family member or, at least, one with merit. Parents often, unconsciously or not, want us to reflect them on some level so they can see themselves in us. A form of natur...