It is common for clients working on moving forward after emotional, spiritual and even physical wounds– to bump up against resistance to forgiving.  Sometimes that forgiveness is for another and many times it is ourselves we want to forgive. I have a great deal of compassion for anyone who  wants to forgive when the infraction seems insurmountable. I devoted a chapter in The Soul Salon to this important task  because it is profoundly important for the health of our body and spirit to forgive those we feel have wronged us–even if it is ourselves.

Sometimes reading a beautiful insight from an author, poet or spiritual teacher can create a shift that nudges us along the path to forgiveness.  This is the point of today’s post; I’d like to share some of my favorites.

• Mark Twain wrote, “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

• Dr. Wayne Dyer  spoke about the negative energy that results from the inability to forgive when he said, “No one dies from a snake bite. It’s not the bite that kills you; what kills you is the venom.”
  

• We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because we love ourselves so much we don’t want to keep paying for the injustice.” ~Don Miguel Ruiz Author of The Four Agreements

• Samuel Smiles said, “He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”

• Martin Luther King shared, “The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.”

• Alden Nowlan mused, “The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.”

• “There are some feelings time cannot benumb.” ~Lord Byron

• C.S. Lewis wrote, “Forgiving and being forgiven are really two names for the same thing.  The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.”

• Another powerful quote from C.S. Lewis is, “I think if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”

• E.H. Chapin said, “Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”

• Louis L’Amour wrote, “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.  That will be the beginning.”

• “He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which himself must pass.” ~George Herbert

The beauty in forgiving, EVEN if the other person has not asked for forgiveness, is that it is wonderfully freeing.  It stops the hemorrhaging of your life force and the corruption of your finely tuned cells.  It releases energy that can then be used for growth, healing, positivity and contribution.

All the best,

Rena M. Reese

Founder, Soul Salon International

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http://mysoulsalon.com/

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