Forgiveness is a heartache and difficult to achieve because strangely, it not only refuses to eliminate the original wound, but actually draws us closer to its source. To approach forgiveness is to close in on the nature of the hurt itself, the only remedy being, as we approach its raw centre, to reimagine our relation to it. David Whyte
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser
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The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse
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The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks
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More Quotes By David Whyte
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.