John-Roger, Peter McWilliams
 Are people initially good or inherently bad?

All right.This is our answer. Our evidence? Well, we could turn to the philosophers, psychologists and poets, but then it would be those who believe that people initially angry, could not refer to a smaller number of philosophers, psychologists, poets, and the number of their arguments would exceed the amount of our own.

Our proof is simple, we call him directly to the source of human life: a child.

What do you see when you look in the eyes of a child? We have looked into the eyes of a child and have not seen the original evil. In them - purity, joy, liveliness, generosity, sparks, happiness - that is good.

Children are like sponges: they absorb everything. By the time they turn two years, they watched more than 10,000 hours of life is good, the bad, the ugly - plus what's on TV.

When they begin to act upon these observations, they know - sometimes in vague terms - that a certain behavior is "good" and such and such "bad" and "here" we can not be bad, we only do good.

What do we mean by evil? Evil is not a necessary life experience. All that we need to get a lesson - that's life, even if it does not look like fun. When the "nerazvlechenie" continues after the lesson is received, it is evil. Cut off a dog's tail (if necessary) - this is life. Do it gradually, by one centimeter - is evil.

First, the child is faced with the difficult puzzles in understanding why some things are "correct" and the other at the same time, "wrong." But gradually the child is learning - with varying degrees of success - to compensate for the bad good, wrong right.

The evil they perceive watching the environment, and the good they learn, learning to hide the evil. We learn to pretend to be good, and when we allow the pretense to slip under it reveals evil. It is no wonder then that many people find themselves in bad. Struggle to maintain the "active good" is like "never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American dream."

When people have the patience (and courage) to go deep below the level of a "inner evil," they invariably reveal ocean of peace, tranquility and joy. There they reach their "inner goodness", which is their true nature.

Funnily enough, "internal good" is often strikingly similar to the "good skin", created for their parents. The difference here is that, being in the center, people do good, because the good is something that you need to do, not because they have to meet representations about them as people of good, or because their could be punished if they did not do good.

Your friends may think that you are, say, a happy person. You must have thought, "How would they know? If they only knew how miserable I am internally. Just pretend happy, and they fall for the bait. What are friends for?" The truth is that a disaster is true happiness, and, perhaps, happiness, which is visible to your friends, it's true happiness, and not pretending that you use as a mask. Maybe your friends have the gift to always see the true happiness.

This is true for any "good" emotions, thoughts or deeds of love, joy, gratitude, enthusiasm, compassion, generosity, gentleness, courage, cleanliness, respect, etc.

We'll talk about how to find the source of this inner goodness (this, incidentally, is one of the main goals of this book). In the meantime, please note the following: If you think you fooling people that do good, if you think that you really are not as good, perhaps, the only person you are fooling - is yourself.