2016
A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.
137 min
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John Bradshaw’s bestselling books and compelling PBS series have touched and changed millions of lives.
When forgiveness experts talk in binary language (’You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate’), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.
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People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.
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How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
How to love yourself and others.
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Mother Teresa. The Dalai Lama. Nelson Mandela. Gandhi. Some admire such figures from afar and think, "How special they are; I could never be like that." But, as John Makransky has learned, the power of real and enduring love lies within every one of us.