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A while ago?” Anaxantis asked. “Yes, he raped me a while ago. Exactly nine months and two days ago. What's that? Nine months or nine minutes. It's the same. And it is in the past, you say? Then why is it still happening, every day, every time I close my eyes? Every time I hear someone behind me, and I don't know who it is? How is it that I get an almost irresistible urge to kill anyone who happens to touch me unexpectedly? Tell me, Hemarchidas, how do I forgive, let alone forget, something that is still happening, that keeps happening over and over? How? How do I do that?

Revenge is ravaging, try not to plan it.. Karma will surely take its course.. But when u see Karma is taking too much time, act yourself..! Karma might have planned you for that role..

The world had always loved the saint as being the nearest possible approach to the perfection of God. Christ, through some divine instinct in him, seems to have always loved the sinner as being the nearest possible approach to the perfection of man. His primary desire was not to reform people, any more than his primary desire was to a relieve suffering. To turn an interesting thief into a tedious honest man was not his aim. He would have thought little of the Prisoners’ Aid Society and other modern movements of the kind. The conversion of a publican into a Pharisee would not have seemed to him a great achievement. But in a manner not yet understood of the world he regarded sin and suffering as being in themselves beautiful holy things and modes of perfection. It seems a very dangerous idea. It is — all great ideas are dangerous. That it was Christ’s creed admits of no doubt. That it is the true creed I don’t doubt myself. Of course the sinner must repent. But why? Simply because otherwise he would be unable to realise what he had done. The moment of repentance is the moment of initiation. More than that: it is the means by which one alters one’s past. The Greeks thought that impossible. They often say in their Gnomic aphorisms, ‘Even the Gods cannot alter the past.’ Christ showed that the commonest sinner could do it, that it was the one thing he could do. Christ, had he been asked, would have said — I feel quite certain about it — that the moment the prodigal son fell on his knees and wept, he made his having wasted his substance with harlots, his swine-herding and hungering for the husks they ate, beautiful and holy moments in his life. It is difficult for most people to grasp the idea. I dare say one has to go to prison to understand it. If so, it may be worth while going to prison.

When seeking forgiveness, remember, that forgiveness includes change. Don't just ask for forgiveness because you are sorry. Ask because you are willing to put the time and effort in to change.

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet grasp each other's hands as friends. It is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with certainty about, should make us hate, persecute, and despise each other. Why a difference of opinion upon predestination, or the trinity, should make people imprison and burn each other seems beyond the comprehension of man; and yet in all countries where Christians have existed, they have destroyed each other to the exact extent of their power. Why should a believer in God hate an atheist? Surely the atheist has not injured God, and surely he is human, capable of joy and pain, and entitled to all the rights of man. Would it not be far better to treat this atheist, at least, as well as he treats us? Christians tell me that they love their enemies, and yet all I ask is—not that they love their enemies, not that they love their friends even, but that they treat those who differ from them, with simple fairness. We do not wish to be forgiven, but we wish Christians to so act that we will not have to forgive them. If all will admit that all have an equal right to think, then the question is forever solved; but as long as organized and powerful churches, pretending to hold the keys of heaven and hell, denounce every person as an outcast and criminal who thinks for himself and denies their authority, the world will be filled with hatred and suffering. To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

All the books, all the lectures, all the pages of ... of information, areas nothing against the measure of our experience -- and by that he meant the experience we take to heart, that we go back to, trying to work out the why, what, and how of whatever has come about in our lives. That, he said, is where we learn the value of true knowledge, with our life's lessons to draw upon so that we might one day be blessed with wisdom. I may not be there yet, but the better part of me is doing my utmost, and one of the elements of life I am learning the hard way is the wisdom to be found in forgiveness. It's what is setting me free.

People in the world ask for forgiveness, but [true] ‘pratikraman’ does not happen by doing that. That is like when people casually say ‘sorry’ or ‘thank you’. There is no significance in that; the significance is of ‘alochana-pratikraman-pratyakhyan’ (acknowledgement of the mistake, repentance and asking for forgiveness for the mistake, remorse and avowal not to repeat the mistake, respectively).

The one whose ‘alochana (confession of mistakes), pratikraman (asking for forgiveness) and pratyakhyan (avowal to never repeat the mistake)’ are true (done correctly), he is bound to attain the knowledge of the Self (attain self realization).

Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.

Everything can be forgiven, except what we decide not to forgive and let go.

I’ve never been ashamed of my struggles, my breakdowns nor those moments where I felt the most chaotic, so damn unbalanced or anxious about all those things that have eaten me alive. I’ve never played the role of a victim because such a silly role has never been mine. on the contrary , I’ve always been my worst judge, my harshest critic, and if I have ever been a victim , I was the victim of my stupid decisions and my wrong choices of toxic people , environment that I’ll never belong to and paths that led me nowhere . I owe the world no apologies, all the apologies I really owe to myself for being so hard on myself in a world that has never made it any better nor showed any mercy on me …

When you forgive, trust and believe the best even in those who have shown you their worst. If you continue to revisit and relive past hurts you will never heal.

I hope that we will never be late. Too late to love, too late to forgive, too late to hug, too late to sing a song, too late to dance, too late to hold hands, too late to say... Please stay, there's so much more. Don't let us ever be too late, to do all that our heart desires.

It is not in our nature to judge each other but to love one another.

Who are we, really? Essentially; Love. We are meant to love one another for it is Love that we are. Love, it truly is the illuminator of life

I find myself at peace with who I am as I realize I am one with the intention that underwrites the universe. This intention is Love. As Love is ultimately the only reality. And as Love is source, it is love who I truly am. I am its child. And love is my home. So I am love. And I am loved. And I love all. And as such I embody all that is Love without condition. As I was created in its image. I am therefore unconditional love. I am understanding. I am forgiveness. I am compassion. I am patience. I am kindness. I am healing. I am joy. I am playfulness. I am happiness. I am goodness. I am harmony. I am peace. And all that what matters to me. Let these then also be my blessings for all. As all is love and all are loved. So be it. So it is. It is done. Love, as all is, as it always is.

The reality of life is love and only love as love creates reality.

Love foremost is the first and most noble of all truths as it underwrites all matters of the universe.

Oh the Saint I would be if never I have erred. It is easy to see the faults in another, While forgetting ever that we have also stumbled.

Let yourself and others walk in a positive light. Talk about what can be done instead of what can’t. Show grace when you have the advantage. If you hold on to overwhelming negativity, find a way to move beyond it. There’s no beauty in the muck of your mind, don't drown others in it. If you need to forgive something, do it. Forgive yourself also. If you want to know peace, lift yourself, and people, higher.