Chapter 6: The Reconciled Self

A FOUR-PART MODEL FOR ACHIEVING YOUR RECONCILED SELF

No matter what the hurt within us, we can seek to be reconciled…. We can find the courage to hold reconciliation and goodwill in our own heart. We can do our part toward the healing of the world.

—Jack Kornfield

The great work of self-awareness is to bring us up to the next threshold.

—Mark Nepo

When people reconcile, they come together in mutual trust following a division caused by at least one person’s unfairness…. When reconciling, both parties willingly must begin listening to one another toward the initial goal of genuinely understanding each other….

Robert Enright

To choose the path that leads to reconciliation requires that you first descend, not transcend.

Alan Wolfelt

Read more