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How forgiving are you towards yourself?
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Wait — you can do that?
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Yeah, although the Catholic Church would like you to think it’s impossible without them!
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If I haven’t done anything really bad, I’m hard on myself. If I’ve been really bad, I always rationalize it and receive complete absolution from myself. No neurosis, no pain.
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Hmm, that sounds very Dostoevkian, epiminondas! Very Brothers Karamazov. I say that appreciatively.
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Since retiring I’ve been pretty much entirely forgiving towards myself.
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Not very….I have a bad habit of beating myself up when I make a mistake…especially at work.
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The Manolo is very forgiving to the Manolo, but then, the afternoon Kir Royale or three helps.
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Quite self critical in the day to day. But when the accretion of such indignities suggests a need for change, I become suddenly much more forgiving.
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“Don’t cling to your self-righteous suffering; let it go. . . nothing is too good to be true, so let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well.” – Stephen Levine
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