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Embrace Your Inner Child – The Freedom You Forgot

4 Aug 2025 · 2 min

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Meryl explores how children see the world through imagination and pure love, while adults accumulate cynicism and friction. She argues life's purpose is protecting that inner child from society's corrupting influences, though staying kind and believing in miracles gets harder as external pressures test that purity.

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And I think that children have their own world and they see the world, themselves and the world through the universe that they have created. So there was this power and magnificence that I didn't just experience as a 9-year-old from my inward world, but that of the world of my classmates. And a lot of the time, and I always say, and the Sufis say, and it's a philosophy that I ascribe to, is that life is about holding true. To the philosophy of the inner child and not allowing the world to infiltrate into that childlike purity, innocence, selflessness, and humanity. So it was that rawness, it was the immutable, uncompromising, relentless love for people and for service and belief in miracle that I think that even as a kindness advocate It's difficult to do in the world because you are constantly coming up with— against, against a lot of friction or alternatives or real problems, real issues that as a child you may not understand fully. And that's what keeps you in your magic. So that's what it would be for me.
We'll have to pause the episode every now and then and maybe just take a few minutes to really dive through what you said, because there are so many layers to that answer. And I'm going to— we're going to have a dialogue, but I'm going to challenge this dialogue as well, Meryl, because what you said is so beautiful that life is all about like holding true to that inner child. And somewhere along that journey, when we grow up, the status quo, the society, the outside conditions infiltrate and lead to this challenge to that inner child.