On the Way: the 3 stages of forgiveness

 

On the Way: the 3 stages of forgiveness   Hope you are well friend! Here are 3 thoughts, 2 quotes, and 1 question to explore this week.   3 Thoughts From Me   I. Imagine you are walking in the countryside when you come across an electric fence. Your friend tells you it is off. So you put your hand on it.   However it electrocutes you ️.   Instead of letting go, you hold on, your hair stands on end like a mad scientist, you are writhing in pain, you slowly turn to look at your friend and hiss “look what you’ve done to me!"   II. Most of the pain we experience arises from our resistance to how the world is: "He shouldn't have treated me like that!".   Even when we have the freedom to move on, our resentment, our resistance traps us in pain.   “Resentment is like drinking rat poison and expecting the rat to die."   III. If you want true freedom, it is not found in a state of the world, it is found in the state of your heart-mind.   Through truly forgiving others, through the total acceptance of what is, a great burden is lifted from you. YOU are forgiven.

2 Quotes From Others   I. 'Saint Francis says, "it is by forgiving that we are forgiven". There is a direct connection between the clemency we express and the world that we experience. Freedom has a clause: it is forgiveness. Or as Gandhi would have it, "Be the change you want to see in the world". If we want forgiveness, we must forgive.' – Russell Brand   II. 'An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.'   – Jesus   Do the Dao Now   Here are the 3 Stages of forgiveness: Build compassion through understanding the person (or thing) Through true understanding, the healing power of compassion naturally transforms resentment, you let it go. You find freedom (you yourself are forgiven)   Understanding, becoming trauma sensitive, seeing complexity, is at the core of forgiveness. If you are finding it hard to let go of resentment, have you built your understanding?

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