Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
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Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)
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We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)
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If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)
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