To run away from history is not at all the same thing as releasing history. To deny history is not the same thing as moving beyond it as the source of your creations. Perhaps your mother did beat you, perhaps your husband was unkind, perhaps you were harmed as a child. While we don’t deny that these things happened, we do say that how you attend to them decides the life you live with and for you. You are participatory to all of your choices—high, and low, and in between. And incarceration by you, in all cases, is to assume that you are a prisoner of what has been chosen prior.
