If everything happens as it must, where’s the sense in saying, “This should never have happened.”? Or: “This is unacceptable!” The word heaps of politics and religion may be understood as reaction formations whereby opposing tendencies are exaggerated and vilified. Ego needs its enemies.
The true man does not take sides. He’s hermaphroditic. He is both sides.
A carpenter’s nail driven through the centre of the palm creates a situation where the hand is painfully open. If there’s a model for how reconciliation works, this is it.
You say you have a right to be angry. And yes, that’s right, you do. But what has this ‘right’ built, created, healed, helped, invented or reconciled?
Beauty does not nurse resentment. It does not because it cannot. It would not be beauty if it did.
Beauty is forgiveness. All is forgiven.
“The world will be saved by beauty.”
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