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"Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn't depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us."
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"Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love."
"He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth."
"Don't allow unforgiveness to make you unhappy."
"Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person."
"If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo."
"It became clear to him that all the dreadful evil he had been witnessing in prisons and jails and the quiet self-satisfaction of the perpetrators of this evil were the consequences of men trying to do what was impossible; trying to correct evil while being evil themselves...Now he saw clearly what all the terrors he had seen came from, and what ought to be done to put a stop to them. The answer he could not find was the same that Christ gave to Peter. It was that we should forgive always an infinite number of times because there are no men who have not sinned themselves, and therefore none can punish or correct others."
"Let go of the mistakes and the sins of others. You'll have plenty of time to make your own mistakes, the rest of your life to commit your own sins."
"We were so little when you took away all our sins."
"Forgiveness is the best tonic for heart."
"I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years."
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"You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable."
"Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition."
"Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels."
"Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was."
"Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self."
"The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred."
"Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point."
"Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered."
"The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets."
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