"When we manage a flash of mercy for someone we don’t like,
especially a truly awful person, including ourselves,
we experience a great spiritual moment, a new point of view that can make us gasp.
It gives us the chance to rediscover something both old and original,
the sweet child in us who, all evidence to the contrary, was not killed off,
but just put in the drawer.
I realize now how desperately, how grievously, I have needed the necessary mercy to experience self-respect.
It is what a lot of us were so frantic for all along, and we never knew it.
We’ve tried almost suicidally for our whole lives to shake it from the boughs of the material world’s trees.
But it comes from within, from love, from the flow of the universe; from inside the cluttered drawer."
Rediscovering Mercy
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