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Charles Stray. Hi everyone. So one of my favorite quotes from you comes from another book

that you wrote called Tiny Beautiful Things. Yes, and I love that quote you say, nobody

is going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself. Whether you are rich

or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary or ridiculous fortune or terrible

injustice, you have to do it no matter what is true, no matter what is hard, no matter

what unjust, sad, sucky things have been falling you. Self-pity is a dead in road. You make

the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there, turn around

and drive out. I love that because I know you walk more than a thousand miles to actually

find yourself. But for anyone I think the essence of that quote lies in it's really about reclaiming

yourself.

Absolute. And it's so much about what you were talking about, the meaning of forgiveness

is about accepting that you're not going to go back and change the past. And I think

sometimes we can get caught in the past. The injustice was so true or so great that you

think, no wait a minute, if I continue to make this claim against the bad thing that happened

to me or the thing that should have gone this way or that or the thing that I should have

received and didn't, in some ways that's how I will be redeemed by continuing to tell

that story of complaint. And what that quote is about and everything about what you just

said is about saying, no, I relinquish the sorrows of the past and I'm going to now feed

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