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Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood QUOTES

Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood QUOTES

1 " Adults who were hurt as children inevitably exhibit a peculiar strength, a profound inner wisdom, and a remarkable creativity and insight. Deep within them - just beneath the wound - lies a profound spiritual vitality, a quiet knowing, a way of perceiving what is beautiful, right, and true. Since their early experiences were so dark and painful, they have spent much of their lives in search of the gentleness, love, and peace they have only imagined in the privacy of their own hearts. "

― , Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood

2 " Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us. "

― , Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood

3 " If we believe that this particular pain is the one that will push the baby out of the womb and into our arms, we somehow try to make a place for that pain in our heart. Pain is still there: excruciating, terrible pain. But at the moment of birth, we rarely feel betrayal or rage; we somehow feel that this is simply pain that has come with life. "

― , Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood