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When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind.

When the resurrection sings itself in the robin's glad song, and bursting buds defy the death grip of winter, and you walk upon the yielding earth near my grave...remember that my soul is not there, but rather it is absent from the body and present with the Lord.

When we accept things it does not necessarily mean we condone them. Acceptance provides us with a choice of what we want to emotionally attach to, what we are prepared to be involved with and do something about.

When we begin to love and care for each other, we will share our challenges.

When we are preoccupied with wealth and material acquisitions, it chokes God's word in us and makes it unfruitful. But if we follow His plan of being prosperous you will enjoy the blessings of this life.

When we come face-to-face with the tender, forgiving eye of our Redeemer, only then will we gain the power to forgive ourselves - and those who have used us. In light of the forgiveness Christ has offered us, how can we offer less to those who have hurt us?

When we come to the light of God, all our sins shall be forgiven by faith in Jesus Christ.

When we forgive, our emotions evolve and reveal the futility of carrying the baggage of anger, antipathy, hostility and hatred. We emerge out of those dark corridors of fear, angst and insecurity.

When we forgive, we're telling our heart that we are ready to move on.

When we forgive, especially under the most difficult circumstances, we grow and evolve as people.

When we forgive others, we give ourselves permission to let go of our own suffering.

When we forgive, we're saying to our heart that we are ready to move on.

When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.

When we forgive someone, we don’t pretend that the harm didn’t happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness.

When we look at a tree, we do not see the tree for what it really is. We see how it appears to us on the surface, and we dismiss it as being just another form in the Universe. We fail to realize that the tree is connected to the Universe on every level; that all of nature is expressing itself through that single form. There can be no tree without the earth that it grows from, the sun that gives it energy, the water that nourishes its growth, and the millions of fungi and bacteria fertilizing its soil. Looking deeply into anything in nature, we realize that it is connected to the whole. We see that nature is one seamless web, and the notion that things have an existence of their own is merely an illusion.

When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves—as ourselves experiencing a different situation and circumstance—we develop a love, a connection, and a unity that allows us to see beyond the various forms, as well as the various ways that someone may act out when they have forgotten their connection and their formless nature. If you look at another in this light, you will see a Being that is just like you, looking back at you

When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the ocean is also within us. The idea that things exist outside of our Consciousness is an illusion. Ancient wisdom traditions have known this for centuries, and even modern science has recognized that our sense organs merely receive information and project it within our own minds. Vision does not take place in the eye, but in an area located in the back of the brain. Everything that we perceive to be “out there” is being experienced “in here.

When we touch...our gods lay down their weapons and I can forgive every trespass...

When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.

When we take too long to forgive the people we love, we can sometimes be too damn late for it to matter.

When you are having a difficult time forgiving, recall a moment when you wanted to be forgiven

When you are stressed and challenged by hardships just smile through it as frowning won’t help in changing the situation

When you are unable to forgive someone, you deny yourself a life free of anger and hate.

When you deeply and completely love yourself, you find there is nothing to forgive because everyone and everything has contributed to who you are now.

When you continue in anger, you throw away the keys to the door of your heart; others can't come in and you can't get out.

When you fail to forgive seventy seven times seven, you shall always have seventy seven times seven unforgiveness in your mind and heart, and you shall always think about unforgiveness seventy seven times seven.

When you feel angry or frustrated at a brother for using a particular defense -- being controlling or whatever it is -- you are failing to forgive yourself for the very same attempt; you still believe that the defense has a reality. You are seeing it out there but when you start to pull it back to your mind, you start to see the control in yourself. The guilt from transferring it from one seeming person/body to another seeming person/body is enormous. Instead of blaming your brother, the blame gets turned onto your own seeming body, but it is still the same error. We have to see that I am mind; this identity that I took off of my brother but still saw in myself is also just a construct in my mind. Otherwise, what good is the transfer?

When you encounter another person…it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation? If you confront insult or antagonism, your first impulse will be to respond in kind. But if you think, as it were, This is an emissary sent from the Lord, and some benefit is intended for me, first of all the occasion to demonstrate my faithfulness, the chance to show that I do in some small degree participate in the grace that saved me, you are free to act otherwise than as circumstances would seem to dictate. You are free to act by your own lights. You are freed at the same time of the impulse to hate or resent that person. He would probably laugh at the thought that the Lord sent him to you for your benefit (and his), but that is the perfection of the disguise, his own ignorance of it…I am reminded of this precious instruction by my own great failure to live up to it recently…

When you forgive yourself, you free yourself from memories which aren’t serving you anymore.

When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.

When you forgive somebody, it’s not so much for them as it is for you. You need to be free from that. And you need to rise above that.

When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.

When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.

when you forgive people, events and circumstances, you are in the process of change, which leads you towards dominant universal emotion called love.

When you FORGIVE unconditionally, do so with no expectations of what is to be

When you forgive, you do not change the past, but you change your future".

When you forgive, you love.

When you have a chance to forgive, think of all you'll gain and forget all you've lost.

When you hear the haunting melody of guilt and shame, drown it out with God's song of forgiveness and love.

...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgiveness is generous or selfish. Maybe both.

When you have truly come to know a person, Nella -- when you see beneath the sweet gestures, the smiles -- when you see the rage and the pitiful fear which each of us hide -- then forgiveness is everything.

When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.

When you look at it only from your own perspective, it’s easy to think that only you have suffered harm. But if you change your thinking... you can approach the other person first and say, “I’m sorry. Please forgive me.

When you maintain bitterness and contempt towards someone, you’re actually binding yourself to them. You’ve given them a foothold in your life with an emotional connection that is stronger than any prison cell. It’s a jail sentence of solitary anger and animosity. Forgiveness is the ONLY thing that breaks that emotional bond. It’s the key that sets you free. ~Jason Versey

When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.

When you quieten and silence your mind and lovingly consult your heart, that direct line between your heart and mind directs you to the "God" within you. It is in that place you will find your answers and what you are looking for. If you are hurt by others, mistrust and hate them, you can not heal. You are only punishing your own soul. FORGIVENESS is the key here. Forgive and let GO. It is a gift you give to your self in order to heal your wounds. Life goes on no matter what! It's either LOVE or HATE. Which would you choose?

When you reach out to those you need to forgive, it is you that will be touched and healed.

When your faith and hope slip, grace wins every time.

When you set out to change the world, the job seems insurmountable, but each of us can do his or her small part to effect change. We change the world when we choose to create a world of forgiveness in our own hearts and minds.