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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
because you have chosen to keep them.”
Gary Zukav from “The Seat Of The Soul”
Love is The Answer 
Well stated. Thank you for sharing, Sufi! Forgiveness truly lightens the load. Holding onto that issue, whatever it is, can imprison us. To be forgiven requires, first, our own willingness to forgive. Most of us must make that request many times during our lives.
Janet, One way I have learned to let go is by understanding we all do the best we can with our level of awareness at a particular time in our lives There are reactions as an example, that I would have years ago that I wouldn’t today.
Exactly.
People don’t realize that forgiveness just means letting go of the NEGATIVE emotions . . . it doesn’t mean condoning the “bad behavior.”
We travel best when we travel light . . . LET IT ALL GO.
Love those Magickal Graphics! 😀
Nancy, Exactly! We don’t condone the behavior as we must have boundaries but letting the negative emotions contaminate our lives over and over again dims the light of our lives.
Aren’t those Magickal Graphics cool? Recently discovered them. They are free to use as long as we add the link back to them. 🙂
Oh my…Marie, that graphic is wonderful!…it’s mesmerizing when I rest a soft gaze on it!
And forgiveness….it’s so important. I went to a wonderful all day class a few months ago, led by Fred Luskin who is part of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, and Rick Hanson, author of Buddha’s Brain. They presented so many insightful ideas and perspectives on forgiveness. Here’s a link to a sequence of steps Fred Luskin uses, in his own life, in his classes, in his project and with people from all over the world.
http://learningtoforgive.com/9-steps/
Kathy, just checked the link and the steps are very helpful. Thanks for the share! If we all can clear as resentments and the fears we harbor from our inner space, we become clearer vessels of Light.
As mentioned to Nancy, I discovered the Magik Graphics site recently. Love their art. I want to learn how to do graphics like that so I can create my own messages. 🙂
Oh, me too….I would just LOVE to be able to create images like that!
First of all the image is just amazing loving how the water is flowing and that sunrise is just beautiful…
Forgiving someone is really hard I must admit, but it is also the best way to be at peace with oneself, Marie you brought out the message so beautifully.
Thank you Veeh for your comments! It’s fun playing with photos and images to bring out messages. If you want to see more Magickal Graphics for your personal use, websites or on you blogs just click on the photo I used. I think it’s such a great idea to have a business like theirs, they provide free graphics with the condition the user links back to them, and they must be making tons of money on Google ads. It’s giving me business ideas… 🙂
Love the graphic ….. 🙂
Thanks, Zahir! 🙂
The power of forgiving – self and others – enables us to move on. If more people understood the relief and joy and ease of life that comes with forgiveness, we’d have a true revolution 🙂
I agree with you! 🙂 I have a friend in Virginia whose mother was killed by a drunk driver and the driver went to jail. She was angry at him for years but reached a point where she wanted to forgive him and visited him in jail. She found that he was a decent man who happened to make a fatal mistake on that day. She supported his probation and eventual early release from jail. She is a woman who is an inspiration as she has overcomed many challenges and is doing great.
Great graphic and inspirational words.
Thank you!Glad you enjoyed the post, Fergiemoto.:)
I love Gary Zukov’s work… and remembered him from back in the 1980s… Yes, forgiveness benefits the one who forgives… holding on creates disease and we don;t need that. TY! 😉
I agree with your words. Let there be more forgiveness in us all!
I find that true forgiveness happens for me when I take responsibility for the hurt I received, i.e. I see what the situation taught me about myself, and realize that I chose to bring it to me. That changes my perspective of the ‘perpetrator’ because the perpetrator was me all along.
This is a very enlightened way of taking responsibility for everything; when we are able to do this we truly learn.