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Classroom Talk: 5/26/2024 - Forgiveness is not the blind acceptance of what is dark, sinful, or just plain evil; real (forgiveness) begins with seeing the need to transcend our own negative reaction to whatever we summarily find as wanting in someone else. After all, whose limitation is it when the best we know how to do (with those who have hurt us) is to hate -- or otherwise resent them... and go on blaming them for the pain they've revealed still lives in us?
Real forgiveness takes place when we understand that the only reason that our friends and family were the way they were is because of the unconscious pain they were in. When we finally understand our own pain, then there is compassion.
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"Father, forgive them: for they know not what they do." Guy Finley explains that real forgiveness is an act of realizing the similarity between yourself and those that have caused you suffering, because you understand they suffer in the exact same way that you do. The scripture "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do" points to this type of "immaculate compassion" towards others which...
Student Talks: 5/31/2024 - Key Lesson: Forgiveness is not the blind acceptance of what is dark, sinful, or just plain evil; real forgiveness begins with seeing the need to transcend our own negative reaction to whatever we summarily find as wanting in someone else. After all, whose limitation is it when the best we know how to do (with those who have hurt us) is to hate -- or otherwise resent them...
It's a simple, beautiful truth: Resentment hurts. Forgiveness heals. In all cases. No matter what. The problem is that sometimes it's really hard to forgive. There is a part of our mind that loves to hold on to painful thoughts and feelings -- even though they aren't good for us. It's not our fault that our minds have been conditioned to work this way, but now that we know what's g...
In this life . . . we are unable to forget whatever remains unforgiven. So, if we won't let go of some pain -- whose time has now past -- then who is to blame for the weight of this burden still being carried on our back?...
It is impossible to change the relationship we have with the world around us without changing the relationship we have in ourselves, with ourselves.
Part I: Forgiveness is the flower of humility because as one is humbled by and through the Light of seeing his own base, insensitive nature, he also sees there can be no one possibly beneath him to condemn. He realizes his own nature is the same as the one he finds unworthy in his neighbor and that, as such, he is his neighbor. This realization is the beginning of Love, of forgiveness in its...
The true spiritual key to finding forgiveness in your heart for another is in awakening to your need to be forgiven for having been seduced into becoming someone who believes there is a valid reason for hating anyone!...
Real forgiveness is not the self-righteous act of grudgingly releasing someone from a debt owed to us, but is the kind and conscious effect of embracing that offending person in a whole New Order of Understanding
Until we awaken enough to see that within us lives the same nature as our "enemy" of the moment, we will never know the freedom or the forgiveness found in this great liberating truth: no enemy exists for us until the judge within us makes one so.