Thoughts on a quote
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ::Carl Jung I saw this quote some time ago and I was like "Hmmm, yeah--makes sense." ... but not quite understanding the meaning, or maybe I did understand it but just as a theoretical axiom ... in my own personal history I have come to know this truth intimately ... the river of blame, anger and shame that drags us along when we live in a world of blame and victimization ... we're dragged into a vicious circle by a current of misdirected anger and fear that eventually comes to control our every action --- we become a prisoner and everything becomes suspect --we make it so ... it isn't until we accept our reality as it, we accept ourselves as we are and others as they are and understand their actions against us as the result of their nature and not as an attack against us--forgiveness, I see, comes with acceptance as well ... then we translate this knowledge to ourselves a...