It's Acceptance and Forgiveness that I'm really after to stay close with me this week. I have a lot to learn from them - those wise old ones.
I was thinking this morning about forgiveness. I'm not really sure what it means to really truly do that - i don't think i've done that ever where i let it go completely. My way was to say to myself, it's okay doesn't matter, and then let resentment build behind the scenes.
so is forgiveness about understanding - really trying to understand why the other person may have done something from their point of view - and then saying that you can let it go, after acknowledging that they are human and humans don't always get things right?
i'm hoping others will chime in and talk about what it means to forgive for each of them.
thanks zig
zig - I can't remember if this has been discussed before in any of your threads, but have you read anything by (appropriately named) Al Turtle? He has a ton of stuff on his website about understanding the perspective of others and how we can learn to see things through the eyes of others (although we can never really fully understand their whole thought process - he uses the metaphor of an iceberg for "stuff" we can see above the water and all the stuff we can't see underwater and how we may not even know what all of our own underwater stuff is, etc). This might help a little with forgiveness.
My forgiveness turtle likes to swim away a lot, too. Reading Al's stuff helped me, though.
