World View Perspective: Freedom from our past wounds
If we imagine a thorn going into our arm from a rose bush outside our selves and it buries itself deep into our arm, we can imagine the pain we'd feel. However, if we don't take immediate action to remove it, that thorn can dig deeper into our arm and we can forget it is there! Perhaps over time, with even greater infection, then it can render our arm useless. Maybe we don't want to remember it went into our arm, maybe we don't want to remember where it came from or maybe even consider why it might be there. We might just want to forget about it even existing. Yet, gone untreated, that nasty torn can become our own undoing because we denied it ever existed. We might feel like it is our own fault it is even there. However, if it goes unchecked, the long term havoc that it can ensue is tremendous! The thorn can be likened to people's attitudes towards us in terms of their anger, jealousy, envy, hatred, bias, a need to get ahead or just plain rudeness but ...