Genuine Forgiveness Does Not Deny

Emotional Access To The Truth Is The Indispensable Precondition Of Healing.

Many People Suffer All Their Lives From This Oppressive Feeling Of Guilt, The Sense Of Not Having Lived Up To Their Parents' Expectations. This Feeling Is Stronger Than Any Intellectual Insight They Might Have, That It Is Not A Child's Task Or Duty To Satisfy His Parents Needs. No Argument Can Overcome These Guilt Feelings, For They Have Their Beginnings In Life's Earliest Periods, And From That They Derive Their Intensity And Obduracy.

Those Children Who Are Beaten Will In Turn Give Beatings, Those Who Are Intimidated Will Be Intimidating, Those Who Are Humiliated Will Impose Humiliation, And Those Whose Souls Are Murdered Will Murder.

I Have Never Known A Patient To Portray His Parents More Negatively Than He Actually Experienced Them In Childhood But Always More Positively--because Idealization Of His Parents Was Essential For His Survival.

The Truth About Our Childhood Is Stored Up In Our Body, And Although We Can Repress It, We Can Never Alter It. Our Intellect Can Be Deceived, Our Feelings Manipulated, And Conceptions Confused, And Our Body Tricked With Medication. But Someday Our Body Will Present Its Bill, For It Is As Incorruptible As A Child, Who, Still Whole In Spirit, Will Accept No Compromises Or Excuses, And It Will Not Stop Tormenting Us Until We Stop Evading The Truth.