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Empathy is a crucial tool in the toolbox of forgiveness. It opens the door to love – even for your enemies.
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Acknowledging your own need to be forgiven is an excellent way to open your heart to forgive others.
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Our need to be forgiven feeds our capacity to forgive, and our capacity to forgive derives from our need to be forgiven.
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Forgiving is a kind of mourning, a giving up on certain hopes.
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This is where forgiveness starts: in the honest searching of our own hearts.
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Holding a grudge keeps the wound festering. The only way to close it is to heal it, and the best way to do that is to forgive.
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Our strongest instincts lead us to blame, not to forgive.
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When you forgive, you are forgiving not only the person who hurt you, but you are forgiving the conditions of life itself.
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…forgiveness is so hard because it represents giving up on the wish that the past will be different.
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You can’t make the bad thing that happened never have happened. But you can do, or at least try to do, the next best thing, which is forgive what has happened.
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