Monday, January 25, 2010

"Today professionals are preoccupied with the 'dysfunctional family.'

But to some extent all families are dysfunctional. No family is perfect, and most have serious problems. A family is a microcosm, reflecting the nature of the world, which runs on both virtue and evil. We may be tempted at times to imagine the family as full of innocence and good will, but actual family life resists such romanticism. Usually it presents the full range of human potential, including evil, hatred, violence, sexual confusion, and insanity. In other words, dynamics of actual family reveal the soul's complexity and unpredictability, and any attempts to place a veil of simplistic sentimentality over the family image will break down.

-pg. 26 of Care of the Soul

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