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A quote from Interior Freedom by Jacques Phillips (emphasis mine)
"Freedom can be diminished by overly strong attachments, by dependence on someone whom we love too much (and in the wrong way), who becomes so indispensable to us that we partly lose our autonomy.
"But a refusual to forgive also binds us to a person we resent, and diminishes or destroys our freedom.
"We are as dependant on the people we hate as on those we love in a disporportionate manner.
"When we foster resentment toward someone, we can't stop thinking about him.
"We are filled with negative feelings that absorb a large part of our energy, and so there is an "investment" in that relationship that does not leave us available, psychologically or spiritually on what we should be concentrating on.
"Resentment attacks our vital forces and does us much harm. When someone has made us suffer, our tendency is to keep the memory of the wrong alive in our minds, like a "bill" we will produce in due time to demand payment.
"Those accumulated bills end up poisoning our lives. It is wiser to cancel every debt as the Gospel invites us to do."
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A quote from Interior Freedom by Jacques Phillips (emphasis mine)
"Freedom can be diminished by overly strong attachments, by dependence on someone whom we love too much (and in the wrong way), who becomes so indispensable to us that we partly lose our autonomy.
"But a refusual to forgive also binds us to a person we resent, and diminishes or destroys our freedom.
"We are as dependant on the people we hate as on those we love in a disporportionate manner.
"When we foster resentment toward someone, we can't stop thinking about him.
"We are filled with negative feelings that absorb a large part of our energy, and so there is an "investment" in that relationship that does not leave us available, psychologically or spiritually on what we should be concentrating on.
"Resentment attacks our vital forces and does us much harm. When someone has made us suffer, our tendency is to keep the memory of the wrong alive in our minds, like a "bill" we will produce in due time to demand payment.
"Those accumulated bills end up poisoning our lives. It is wiser to cancel every debt as the Gospel invites us to do."
