The Past Is a Textbook
- self compassion
- integration
- growth
The past is a textbook, not a torture chamber.
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Clay
Old potter Kenji didn’t produce bowls - he carried on a conversation with clay. His workshop, smelling of dust and rain, was lined with shelves. They displayed not triumphs but scars: hundreds of cracked, lopsided, imperfect vessels. One day a young student, Ryo, arrived with a shining ideal in his head: a bowl thin as a petal and symmetric as the...