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Legacy of the Heart : The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood
Legacy of the Heart The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood Author:Wayne Muller When we are hurt as children, we can quickly learn to see ourselves as broken, handicapped, or defective in some essential way. As we remember with excruciating precision the violations and injustices that devastated our tender years, we come to view our childhood as a terrible, painful mistake. At times, the enormity of our childhoo... more »d sorrow can fill us with a sense of hopelessness, disappointment, and despair.
A painful childhood invariably focuses our attention on the inner life. In response to childhood hurt, we learn to cultivate a heightened awareness, and sharpen our capacity to discern how things move and change in our environment. Childhood pain encourages us to watch things more closely, to listen more carefully, to attend to the subtle imbalances that arise within and around us. We develop an exquisite ability to feel the feelings of others, and we become exceptionally mindful of every conflict, every flicker of hope or despair, every piece of information that may hold some teaching for us. Thus, family pain broke us open and set our hearts on a pilgrimage in search of the love and belonging, safety and abundance, joy and peace that were missing from our childhood story. Seen through this lens, family sorrow is not only a painful wound be be endured, analyzed, and treated. It may in fact become a seed that gibes birth to our spiritual healing and awakening.« less
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