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self-forgiveness

1 essay on self-forgiveness from the Consilium journal. Featuring Marcus Aurelius, Fritz Perls, Virginia Woolf. Each pits three thinkers against one hard question.


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What Do You Do When You Can't Stop Blaming Yourself for Something You Can't Change?

Aurelius says what's past is past; decide what reason requires now. Perls says the guilt lives in the present tense. Woolf says what happened lives in you differently than you think.

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