Tuesday, January 22, 2008

"And the clarity is compassion."

"Somewhere along the line, you concluded that there was something wrong with you. Of course you did! What else could you conclude? If there were nothing wrong with you, people wouldn't treat you that way! They wouldn't say those things to you!

Wrong!

Then why did they do that to me?

Because it was done to them. Because we do what we are taught.
Society calls this 'child rearing' or 'socialization.' We call it 'sad.'

By the time 'socialization' is complete, most of us hold an unshakable belief that our only hope of being good is to punish ourselves when we are bad."

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