More on "Speak Peace in a World of Conflict"
So - if everything we do, we do to meet a need, doesn't that apply even to people who have hurt us? Some of us are still in pain because of harm done to us by our parents. Rosenberg promises us that they too were trying to meet a need. Maybe our reaction to that truth would be that they did what they did because they were bad people and had to hurt us because they needed to do something bad. Well, that's not what Rosenberg meant and we know that. Maybe our parents had parents who hurt them. Maybe our parents had no idea how to handle the difficulties they were facing in their lives, and took it out on us. There are a million possible explanations for why our parents and/or other people have hurt us that have nothing to do with their being bad people. So once we've let ourselves off the hook for the things we've done that we've judged as bad, we might be able to let the people who have hurt us off the hook too. Rosenberg says that the pain will go away when we've let ourselves and everybody else off the hook. This might be the hardest thing we've ever done, but wouldn't it be worth it to be out of pain?
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