“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) India’s preeminent political and spiritual leader
What do you have trouble forgiving and how have you sought to address it? (Please post your response at the bottom of this page)
WHEN LOVE IS ON THE LOOSE – “Forgiving the unforgivable might not be easy. No one is ever required or forced to forgive. It always has to be one’s own free choice. But if we can do it, a lot of our own good energy, vision, and love is freed up to serve both ourselves and others so good things can happen in our lives and in the lives of our people.” (Wellbriety Vol. 10.2, p. 8)
Ruffneck Santa in Full Flex – Skrillex (3:34)
Ho o’ pono pono Hawaiian Forgiveness Technique (4:36)
Forgiveness and the Freedom of Letting Go (4:01)
What do you have trouble forgiving and how have you sought to address it?
Sand and Stone :
A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument and one friend slapped the other one in the face.
The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand… “TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.”
They kept on walking until they found an oasis where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in die mire and started drowning.
But the friend saved him. After the friend recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone…. “TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE.”
The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”
The other friend replied… “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”
Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your benefits in stone. (http://www.english-for-students.com/sand-and-stone.html)
FEATURED POST FROM THE ZONR VAULT – “I have trouble forgiving myself for many things. This is just a work in progress and I will probably seek counseling for it. I don’t feel comfortable dealing with some issues in AA. But I agree with my sponsor that I need to deal with it somewhere if not AA.” (Orig. post Adam, 12/25/2012)
I’ve been learning at PSLA that forgiveness is synonymous with releasing judgment. Because I like view myself as being very non-judgemenal, then that necessarily means I can not withhold forgiveness.
Realizing we are all God’s children makes this easier too.
Happiest of holidays to everyone. I do not know how it happened or when, and as my willingness to forgive myself and others has increased, so has my capacity to choose a state of joy. Maybe forgiveness is strictly a human issue – maybe Higher Power doesn’t have to forgive – maybe Higher Power understands in a way that transcends judgment and punishment. Maybe..
Vaya con Dios