Comments on: A Short Minute on Forgiveness

By: Living Out Loud

Living Out Loud — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:30:24 +0000

Forgive others, and yourself !

(a Thought for the Week) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of

By: karen

karen — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:30:12 +0000

thanks, Isabella,
I think you are right. The emotions themselves just are…it’s how we think about them and react to them that hurts us!

I’ll have to check out that carnival.

By: isabella mori

isabella mori — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:21:42 +0000

hi karen – great post. love the quotes. (hey, maybe material for the carnival of quotes?)

i’m not sure that emotions in and of themselves are negative. they are what they are, and as rubin says, it helps to love those “foolish” parts of us.

the destructiveness and negativity that happens is perhaps not so much because of the emotions but because of what we do with them – how we think about them, how we act and react rashly in the face of them.

interestingly enough, it appears that when we accept these feelings, but their intensity and our reactivity can decrease dramatically.

… and you may have said all of this yourself but of course you’ve got important things to do! all the best to your family.

By: karen

karen — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:19:01 +0000

Thank you.
yes, I really like the Mommy job…

By: Audrey

Audrey — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:57:19 +0000

wow that was very well said. I only wish I had realized that for the last 10 or 12 years. thank you for writing it. hope everyone gets better soon, sometimes it’s a tough job being a mother but definetly worth every minute.