We feel responsible for ourselves, and we feel good taking responsibility. Freedom is not a creation of ours. It is a System already in place, needing only our awareness of it to enter it. The heart of our inner work and its purpose is to bring about, within each of us, ever-higher states of Freedom. Abuse, Guilt, and Self-Abuse by Rodney Smith.
Many adults have a history of childhood abuse.
As harmful as these early experiences can be to our psyche, an accompanying form of abuse frequently compounds them. This is the abuse we give ourselves. This form is even more widespread and affects most of us in one way or another. Unto itself the intellect is a sacred gift of the Creator, but, equally, without an open, visionary, and creative heart, there is no wisdom.