Leading Means Learning Forgiveness
Eric Fromm, the renowned psychoanalyst, wrote: ‘We must approach the unconscious… with a profound sense of humour.’ Why? Because we all, when we have the humility to admit it, have dark thoughts. Many of us have done dark deeds because…
Eric Fromm, the renowned psychoanalyst, wrote: ‘We must approach the unconscious… with a profound sense of humour.’ Why?
Because we all, when we have the humility to admit it, have dark thoughts. Many of us have done dark deeds because of them. But the only path to true change is to see all our dark ideas and deeds as they really are – as the way our hurt and scared inner child has developed of protecting herself from being traumatised again. These ideas were formed at the moment she or he was let down, hurt or in some cases rejected by her parents. As such, if we can get a wider perspective, we can see them as we would see the tantrums and moods of toddler -ie. as quite funny.
There is a reason that the Buddha is always smiling and that Alexander Pope said: ‘to err is human, to forgive is divine.’
Or a more Christian (an moral) view of the same thing;
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND MY ACTIONS. FOR I DO NOT DO WHAT I WANT BUT I DO THE VERY THINGS I HATE. ROMANS 7:15
