Forgiveness to me means that I will not exact any penalties. It doesn’t mean I will forget or things will ever be the same.

Perhaps you should consider that we all create all of our emotions and that we are the only ones who experience our emotions. If you are self aware enough, you can modulate your emotions so that they don’t harm you.

And if someone has wronged you and it consumes you with anger and vengeance? Then what?

If someone harms me and at some future point tells me they apologize I am not obliged to forgive them. This is independent of whether or not I am feeling aggrieved by their actions. The event may be long forgotten, it may never have harmed or hurt me or it could be impacting heavily on my life to the point of consuming me.

If the person that…[Read more]

I think, if someone pisses you off, there are two choices: break off the relationship, or forgive them and continue the relationship.

Forgiveness means to move on past the troublesome behaviour without necessarily overlooking it.  It’s important because it allows a relationship to continue.

Without forgiveness we can end up with an eye for an…[Read more]