Message #9240

[Lucky Denver]

Forgiveness was mentioned in this thread and, if it is no bother, I would like to add my thoughts.

It is true, that forgiveness will always be to our benefit, even though the simpler mind may have trouble understanding how.  When we forgive somebody who has wronged us, it's not that we are saying "what you did was right".  We are simply choosing not to be attached to the event and emotions of hate and anger.  It takes much more work to forgive and to actually try to understand the reasons for another person's actions; just the way we would want our own reasons to be understood for anything we have ever done wrong.

Although the event of a person seriously harming a loved one, for example, is very hard to deal with.. it is foolish to call this "impossible" to forgive.  It may take a stronger heart and mind for someone to do this, but nonetheless, forgiveness is ALWAYS superior to repulsion and resentment, and will ALWAYS benefit us more than any revenge or "eye-for-eye" justice ever can.

When we learn to forgive in our hearts, we do the justice of the Universe tenfold

Love
Lucky