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Dare to Forgive:
Empathy is a crucial tool in the toolbox of forgiveness. It opens the door to love – even for your enemies.
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083 |
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Dare to Forgive:
Acknowledging your own need to be forgiven is an excellent way to open your heart to forgive others.
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085 |
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Dare to Forgive:
There is a primitive part of most of us, especially men – that rises up out of the depths when crossed, challenged, or demeaned.
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104 |
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Dare to Forgive:
It only takes a second or two of feeling really bad – humiliated, gypped, overlooked, insulted, mistreated – to set off a lifelong feud.
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108 |
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Dare to Forgive:
Most violent crimes and murders occur during the flash of rage; if you can control yourself through that, you will probably not do anything disastrous.
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108 |
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Dare to Forgive:
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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119 |
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Dare to Forgive:
We who blame ourselves need to learn that we have suffered enough, and that further suffering only keeps us from doing good in the world.
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121 |
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Dare to Forgive:
One of the hardest truths about human nature is that we lash out at those we are closest to.
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142 |
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Dare to Forgive:
When one of us is strong an patient enough to accept pain, injustice and suffering without returning it in kind, we all benefit.
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150 |
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Dare to Forgive:
…we all tend to inflict our pain upon one another whether we mean to or not.
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151 |
