The Childish, the Adolescent, the Liberal & the Awakening

The Childish	The Adolescent	The Liberal	The Awakening
Take refuge below	Take refuge above	Take refuge on all sides	Take refuge not in position but in Being
Excuse their parents	Blame their parents	Parent their parents	Understand their parents
Sit under	Sit on	Sit between	Sit with
Want someone else to be in charge	Want no one else to be in charge	Are not sure who they want to be in charge	Recognize and cooperate with what actually is in charge
Confuse love with romance	Confuse love with freedom	Confuse love with sympathy	Are not confused about love
Erect pedestals	Mount pedestals	Level all pedestals save those of liberalism	Need no pedestals
Look up to	Look down upon	Look horizontally	Look inside their looking
Are busy being nobody	Are busy being somebody	Are busy being everybody	Simply Are
Turn shame into guilt	Turn shame into aggression	Turn shame into Impotence	Turn shame into freedom
Indulge in self-blame	Other-blame	Cultural blame	Do not blame
Crave parenting	Fight parenting	Legislate parenting	Self-parented
Are at the mercy of others’ opinions	Are at the mercy of their own opinions	Make moral real estate out of honoring all opinions	Don’t take opinions (including their own) seriously
Idolize the Sage	Discredit the Sage	Avoid the Sage	Make an opportunity out of the Sage
Act helpless	Non-helpless	Helpful	Are help
Swallow it	Reject it	Trivialize it	Respond to it until it’s no longer an it
Personify false innocence	Personify false maturity	Personify false friendship	Personify Being
Open indiscriminately	Open suspiciously	Open bureaucratically	Open until there is only openness
Fear hardness	Fear softness	Fear solidity	Don’t make a problem out of fear
Indulge in judging themselves	Indulge in judging others	Indulge in judging conditions	Do not judge
Look after they leap	Look before they leap	Look without leaping	Look as they leap
Assume someone else has It	Assume they have It	Assume no one has It	Are It