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A Short Minute on Forgiveness

By karen | November 29, 2007

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
You are the one who gets burned.”
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Buddha

Or perhaps like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Lack of forgiveness, anger, hate, jealousy, envy, any negative emotion that you feel towards another person only hurts you. It doesn’t hurt them. They are the center of their own Universe, just as you are the center of yours.

But often the person that we have the hardest time forgiving is ourselves. We all make mistakes. Just pick up the pieces and move on.

“I must learn to love the Fool in me
The one who feels too much,
Talks too much,
Takes too many chances,
Wins sometimes and loses often,
Lacks self-control,
Loves and hates,
Hurts and gets hurt,
Promises and breaks promises,
Laughs and cries.”
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Theodore Isaac Rubin

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I’m sure that there is more.

But not today, a flu bug has hit our house and the beautiful girls are not feeling so well.

I’m off to do another favorite job, the job of being “Mommy”.

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5 Responses to “A Short Minute on Forgiveness”

  1. Audrey Says:
    November 29th, 2007 at 10:57 pm

    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.

  2. karen Says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 9:19 am

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

  3. isabella mori Says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    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.

  4. karen Says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    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.

  5. Living Out Loud Says:
    December 3rd, 2007 at 4:30 am

    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

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