1 result for (book:tps5 AND session:843 AND stemmed:father)
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Patterson
Mrs
Johnson
corruption
cult
[... 32 paragraphs ...]
In such situations you are taught that the self you have is not only flawed, but a facade—a fake self that cannot be trusted, and whose expression must be largely denied. You are told to give up the self to the leader of the group—the guru, the master, the father, the authority by whatever name.
[... 9 paragraphs ...]
Give us a moment.... Only that he has learned much, and could not have considered taking his father in in this same manner, kindly and rationally, even a few years ago.
He still does not have all of the implications of the resolutions, but they will come to him. It is important that he and Eve not feel martyred, taking in the father, but I believe they both understand their positions there, and recognize they are forming their own realities and considering an act of kindness for its own sake.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
