“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
— James Baldwin
The Upside Down World
~Online home of Rebecca Trotter; a mom, author, thinker, talker, teacher, Christian and odd duck . . .
I think that’s true. I also think, as it’s been said, that what a person hates is a mirror image of what is hated in one’s self. That is, part of the shadow.
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