Forgiveness: Part 1
"The act of forgiveness is not the condoning of any action that causes pain, it is the refusal to carry the pain inflicted by that action." ~Grandmother to The Oracle, Children of the Luminaries: Book III~The Day of Reckoning Long ago, when I had asked about forgiveness, the answer I received was simplistic in nature. Though it is nothing new, the message bears repeating. When we forgive, we are not condoning the action that caused us pain. On the contrary! When we forgive -- we are in refusing to carry any and all pain inflicted by that action . A Hard Habit To Break As human experiencers, we develop a wide variety of habits. No greater habit have any of us than the holding on to pain. It doesn't matter how long ago it was inflicted, it doesn't matter how far we have come in our conscious awareness ... our habit of holding on to our pain is ever present. It is a habit that we hold near & dear to our collective hearts. We hold on to our...