Category: Empathic Communication
Empathy, Conflict, Reconciliation
“To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do the work of reconciliation. And humans want to take sides. That is why the situation gets worse and worse. Are there people who are still available to both sides? They […]
“…society is the sum total of individuals in need of redemption.”
Photo: Bruce Esplin sculpture Tempered by Fire It is unfortunately only too clear that if the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either, for society is the sum total of individuals in need of redemption. ~C.G. Jung, 1961, in The Undiscovered Self: With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams