understanding FORGIVENESS part 2

Look into your heart and be honest about all the people in your past who have harmed you in any way. Where there is pain, practice pardon. Forgiveness is the very foundation of spiritual awakening.  All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. 

• Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.
• Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
• If you never condemned, you would never need to forgive.
• Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. 
• Forgiveness is having the courage to take down the walls that we think are there to protect us.
• It is not always enough that you be forgiven by others, but that you forgive yourself.
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
• Forgiveness is not something we do for other people, we do it for ourselves to get well and to move on! 
• The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world
• The noblest vengeance is to forgive. - Italian proverb
• The strong forgive, the weak remember. - Ecuadorian 
• Forgiven is not forgotten. - German 
• The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. - Irish 

Stay tuned for more on forgiveness .... contd. 

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