Day 145b: Entering well; leaving Better … (September 21, 2019)
And then it was that I finally made it to the city of Knoxville, and found to my surprise that I couldn’t leave the same fast enough …
“We need to recognize & forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, but only because doing so makes it easier to recognize the same in others and thereby forgive them who are maturing awkwardly (or even poorly) in our lives … Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall (another way of saying: Thoughts that remind one that he or she is in intractable facet of The ONE) are ever helped along by traversing the flow of a landscape … If you embrace those parts of yourself that you’ve skillfully avoided until now, you will be more likely to forgive the failings of any region or people you encounter thereafter.” ~ inspired by M. Secretary, Alain de Botton & Gina Greenlee