Genuine Feelings Cannot Be Produced, Nor Can

It Is Very Difficult For People To Believe The Simple Fact That Every Persecutor Was Once A Victim. Yet It Should Be Very Obvious That Someone Who Was Allowed To Feel Free And Strong From Childhood Does Not Have The Need To Humiliate Another Person.

Learning Is A Result Of Listening, Which In Turn Leads To Even Better Listening And Attentiveness To The Other Person. In Other Words, To Learn From The Child, We Must Have Empathy, And Empathy Grows As We Learn.

For The Human Soul Is Virtually Indestructible, And Its Ability To Rise From The Ashes Remains As Long As The Body Draws Breath.

In The Short Term, Corporal Punishment May Produce Obedience. But It Is A Fact Documented By Research That In The Long Term The Results Are Inability To Learn, Violence And Rage, Bullying, Cruelty, Inability To Feel Another's Pain, Especially That Of One's Own Children, Even Drug Addiction And Suicide, Unless There Are Enlightened Or At Least Helping Witnesses On Hand To Prevent That Development.

The Truth About Childhood, As Many Of Us Have Had To Endure It, Is Inconceivable, Scandalous, Painful. Not Uncommonly, It Is Monstrous. Invariably, It Is Repressed. To Be Confronted With This Truth All At Once And To Try To Integrate It Into Our Consciousness, However Ardently We May Wish It, Is Clearly Impossible.