Debbie Ford Quotes
When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.
Ford, Debbie. The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse: A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with Your Soul's Deepest Purpose. HarperOne, 2009.
He was referring to his campaign in 2000 where South Carolina was a very important state in the Republican primary elections and he was campaigning there. At that time, the racist tradition of flying the Confederate Flag, a symbol of slavery and disloyalty to the Union, over the state capitol was a hot political issue with Blacks and some whites outraged and many conservatives who were insistent that the tradition be maintained. McCain, not wanting to offend the conservative who were the core of the voters in the Republican primary, said he did not see anything wrong with the practice when it really offended him as it did most Americans at the time.
Debbie Ford was an American self-help author, coach, lecturer and teacher, most known for The New York Times best-selling book, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers (1998), which aimed to help readers overcome their shadow side with the help of modern psychology and spiritual practices. In following years, she went on to write eight more books including Spiritual Divorce, Why Good People Do Bad Things, and The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse, which have sold over 1 million copies and been translated into 32 languages. She led workshops on "Shadow Process" and hosted TV and radio shows, and also established the "Ford Institute for Transformational Training".