(We aren’t) willing to just skip happily down the path to (our) heart’s deepest pain. We fight this part of the journey. The whole false self, our “lifestyle”, is an elaborate defense against entering our wounded heart. It is a chosen blindness. “Our false self stubbornly blinds each of us to the light and the truth of our own emptiness and hollowness,” says Manning… Ah, how convenient that blindness is. Blissful ignorance. But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed. We must go in.
- John Eldredge, Wild At Heart.
