Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada - L'Arche Canada Foundation Daily Thought with Jean Vanier for Friday, 11 July 2014 "The Chain of Pain"

Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada - L'Arche Canada Foundation Daily Thought with Jean Vanier for Friday, 11 July 2014 "The Chain of Pain"
With help, we may realize that if our parents acted as they did, with a lack of attention and thoughtfulness, even sometimes with a certain harshness, it is because they too were hurt by their own parents and by wounding experiences in their own lives. They are part of this long chain of pain and violence that is passed on from generation to generation.(Jean Vanier, Seeing Beyond Depression, page 69)
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