On Forgiveness

Forgiveness is not about the other person, nor is it about pretending that you were not wronged. It is not about forgetting. It is about removing a burden from yourself. If this is a new concept for you, it may be the most difficult thing you have ever tried to do, but it is well worth it and it will become easier with practice. Your self-righteous ego will fight you....but, do it anyway, so you will be free. It is worth it! It is very worth it.

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Forgiveness is not a moral issue. It is an energy dynamic...
Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.
When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.
When you choose not to forgive, it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses that distort everything, and it is you who are forced every day to look at life through those contaminated lenses. Gary Zukav
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Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. Maryanne Williamson

The incoherence that results from holding on to resentments and unforgiving attitudes keeps you from being aligned with your true self. It can block you from your next level of quality life experience. Metaphorically, it's the curtain standing between the room you're living in now and a new room, much larger and full of beautiful objects.

The act of forgiveness removes the curtain. Clearing up your old accounts can free up so much energy that you jump right into a whole new house. Forgiving releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison where you are both the inmate and the jailer. Doc Childre and Howard Martin