Paul Ferrini

Crime and Punishment

If thoughts could kill, how many of you would be alive now? I would remind you, the seeds of all the action is in your thoughts. If you think, "I hate such and such", you attack the person.

What begins with the thought, quickly turns into speech. If you wear for someone in front of others or pletesh scheming behind his back, you attack the person.

The fact that it has become, is fast becoming action. If your words ignite others who support your attack, you may seem justified to beat or even kill a person.

Society says, "reprehensible only physical action. Verbal attacks deplorable, but they are inevitable. And there is no fool who tried to draw the person accountable for his thoughts. "

So you resent murder, but the thought of killing you is considered appropriate. She attended all of you. You resent rape or sexual abuse, but not too worried about the thought of them.

I ask you to remember that everything you think, say or do in relation to another person, reflects what you think of yourself. Negative thoughts about someone else show how you see yourself.

Gossip or verbal abuse of another person talking about your own sense of shame and emotional disorder. And the physical abuse of others, points to your own suicidal impulses.

There is nothing mysterious. Only injured person jumps on others. And how many of you are not injured? How many of you, anyway, do not attack the other?

The difference between you and someone who rapes and kills, is not so great as you think. I say this not in order to make you feel bad. I say this to help you awaken to a sense of responsibility to others.

If you can forgive yourself thoughts of revenge, why you can not forgive someone who takes vengeance? After all, he is just doing what you think.

I do not condone the act of revenge. I can not justify any attack and do not propose to do to you. I'm just asking you, why do you wrest this brother from your heart? Perhaps it is even more in need of love and forgiveness, than you. Why then did you lose that?

Your brother was deeply traumatized. He grew up without a father. In nine years, he was addicted to drugs. He has lived in the area where you never felt safe. Do you not feel any compassion to the injured boy to the man who committed the crime?

If you were in his shoes, would you really would behave much better? Be honest with yourself, my friend. And in that honesty, you will find compassion - if not for this man, at least to the boy, who he has become.

And I'm telling you that now pulls the trigger is not the man, but the boy. The one who put down and threatened. Baby, do not love and are not wanted. Strikes the injured boy, not a man.

My friends, there is no man. There is only a boy. Do not let yourself be fooled by the sight of his embittered, arrogant adult.

For severe exterior lies an insurmountable pain and self-condemnation. Behind the mask of unbridled courage and vicious hatred hiding the boy who does not believe that he is worthy of love.

If you can not take it boy, how can you make a boy or girl in yourself? After all, his fear is not so different from yours.

Let us, first thing, take off the mask of moral superiority. And then let us living in a boy or girl to look at the boy in it. This is where the love begins and recognition. This is where the roots ability to forgive.

Criminals - only one group of untouchables in your community. You do not want to see their lives. You do not want to hear their pain. You want to hide them where not have to do with them.

In the same way you do with the old people, the mentally ill, the homeless.

As you can see, my friend, you do not want to place the burden of love of neighbor. But, not liking it, you can not learn to love and accept myself. Your brother - the key to your salvation. It always has been and always will be.

Similarly, a person denies and suppresses the negative trends that does not want to take themselves and society denies and hides in hospitals and prisons are the problems that it does not want to know.

Both individual and collective subconscious carved Secret injuries. And at both levels of unaccountable behavior is caused by pain, and, paired with these traumas, feelings of guilt and fear.

Forgiveness, like a spotlight illuminates the darkness, in the secret corners of the individual and in society. It tells your guilt, your fear, "Come out and be visible. I need to see you. "

And criminals it says: "Come out, meet with the victims of their crimes, changed for the better, begin to heal."

Recognition of injury - the first step towards healing. If you - individually and collectively - are not ready to face the fear that behind any injury, the healing process will not start.

It is difficult to look at the pain, repressed into the unconscious. Society it is difficult to look at the pain of their outcasts. But it must be done.

 

(To be continued)