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FORGIVENESS
"Decide to
Forgive
Be the first to forgive
To smile and take the first step
For by forgiving
You become the master of fate
The doer of miracles
To forgive is the highest
Most beautiful form of love
In return you will receive
Untold peace and Happiness"
Robert Muller
"To err is human,
To forgive. Divine."
Shakespeare
"Without
memory,
There is no healing.
Without forgiveness,
There is no future."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The above quotes were taken from the
website The Forgiveness Web:
http://www.forgivenessweb.com/
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A Hermetic Axiom states "Nothing
escapes the principle of cause and effect." In regard to forgiveness it might
then be inferred that to forgive is to be forgiven (this same idea is implied in the
Lord's Prayer).
Webster defines "forgive" as "to
give up resentment against or the desire to punish; stop being angry with; pardon."
But surely the meaning goes much deeper.
To truly forgive, one must rescind all
judgments. Again "Judge not that you not be judged" makes reference to
the principle of cause and effect. True forgiveness (not relative forgiveness)
can only come from a place of unconditional (non-judgmental) Love. So long as we
aspire to the spirit, and are not satisfied simply with the letter, we may be assured of
reaching the goal. Therefore if a truly forgiving nature is the goal, we may know it is
within reach.
Bruce Allen
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forgiveness means looking steadily at the sin, ...., after all allowances have been made,
and seeing it in all its horror, dirt, meanness, and malice, and nevertheless being wholly
reconciled to the man (or woman*) who has done it. Essay On Forgiveness by C. S.
Lewis
By Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., N.Y. 1960 |
| The following is an excerpt from: "It’s In The Air" a talk given by Tom Carney
"For forgiveness lies at the core of the most ancient of the Laws
of Life that govern the Great Unfolding, the Law of Sacrifice, which means "the
impulse of giving."...
"The whole secret of the doctrines of ‘the forgiveness of sins’ and
of the ‘at-one-ment’ lies hid in this simple phrase. It is the basis of the
Christian doctrine of love and sacrifice. Hence the emphasis laid, in the Piscean Age and
through the influence of Christianity, upon just these two things, forgiveness and
atonement."
Go to
Page 3
for the entire text of this more esoteric approach to
Forgiveness...
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