Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'
Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.