The hardest things to think about

You cannot stop yourself from thinking. At best you can interrupt your thoughts and many do when the thoughts turn to subjects that are unpalatable to the mind and distasteful to the soul. The hardest things to think about are the things that you did that you should not have done, or the things that you should have done but did not do. Your punishment is inevitable; you will have to think about those things and sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you will not be able to interrupt those thoughts.
Perhaps this is the only punishment for your sins, the reprise of them in a dimension which harms no one but you.  Dimensions are hard to understand; the third dimension is easy, but the first and second dimensions are still a mystery to me. The fourth dimension is simply thought. That is the only chance of salvation and that is the only way to do the things that you should have done but did not do and not do the things that you did.

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