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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #4366, Sunday September 11, 2011
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances
that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to
forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked
into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit
for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed
and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It
extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare.
- Lance Morrow
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he
sits down and waits for his enemy to die.
- Nelson Mandela when asked why he was not resentful for his
imprisonment.
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not
a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget
creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past
into a hope for our future.
- Louis B. Smedes
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it,
we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it
what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only
then do we forgive it.
- Louis B. Smedes
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
- George MacDonald
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself
must pass.
- George Herbert
Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must
remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite
is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its
emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it.
Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of
forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the
situation more effectively.
- David McArthur & Bruce McArthur
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of
saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a
cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can
be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to
forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
- Sholem Asch
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those
who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
- Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by
which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made
clean again.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is... accepting God's sovereign use of people and
situations to strip you of self importance, and humiliate your
self love.
- Martha Kilpatrick
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal
that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain