pathway to growth

"Remorse...will frequently block the pathway to growth"

"It is a complex emotion, comprised of sadness, regret, anguish, loss and despair...The individual has a terrible recognition of some self-sabotaging behavior, or of some psychic pain that has...hampered their progress...
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...only by opening up the complex of the feeling of remorse can forward movement be made.
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Clive Hazell in The Experience of emptiness