title: Knowing.
genesis:i think everyone of us is walking around with varying degrees of psychological wounds that we accumulate through life. relationships with family, friends, partners,school mates and general interactions of every day life imprint on us, consciously or not.
for better or worse, some imprints are only skin deep, while other imprints scar all the way through the psyche and heart. and if we do not acknowledge these wounds and try to understand their existence in order to learn and heal, such open cuts become infected and contaminate our perception of ourselves, other people and the world around us.
it is a rare person who has not been hurt by another. we demean each other with words. cut each other with sharpened sentences. we wound as we were wounded. and the cycle will only stop when we have the courage to look to ourselves and question our own actions. analyse our own fears. accept our own ignorance. we do not hit out at 'another', only the shadow of the 'other (our)self", kept at arms distance from our awareness.
(Fluid Ink)
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Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.
—bell hooks All About Love
