“When we ask God to heal our lives, He shines a bright light on everything we need to look at. Within ourselves, we notice things we might have preferred not to see. We have a thick armor surrounding our hearts—a lot of fear masking itself as something else.
As anyone who has undergone serious psychotherapy knows, the process of personal growth is not always easy. We have to look at our own ugliness. It is often painfully necessary to realize the inadequacy of a given model before we accept that we must release it.
In fact, when we begin to work on ourselves, it often seems that our lives are changing for the worse instead of the better. In reality, life is not getting worse; it’s just that we feel our own transgressions more acutely because we are no longer under the anesthesia of the unconscious. Denial and detachment no longer distance us from our own experiences.
We begin to see the truth about the game we are playing.”
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
