relationship is the great teacher of the heart period…

Page 163 keyword family relationship is the great teacher of the heart period It comes in many forms and holds up many mirrors as we learn who we are. And discovering our true self, separate in the whole, we begin to exchange dependents for interdependence, and learn to create family relationships in you and healthier ways .

— from Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)

In the book

So choose, deliberately, a culture of family empathy over a culture of family blame — instead of cataloguing what someone did to you, ask, with compassion, why it happened. Family, after all, is the great teacher of the heart; it holds up mirror after mirror until we slowly learn to trade dependence for genuine interdependence. [Here is the place for my own confession — write in, or let me tell you across the table, the specific things in how I dealt with my own parents and my own children that I would do differently now.] I will say only this much in writing, because you deserve to know your grandfather does not stand above this weather: with everything I understand now, there are things I regret — the way I dealt with my parents, and the way I dealt with my children. — Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)

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• Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)
• Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society)

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