Submitting Questions to "In the Now"

[Patrick]

I would like to have their perspective on my understanding of forgiveness.

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We come to 3d to learn that others do not need to suffer the consequences of their actions. If we do nothing then yes that is what will happen, we will all suffer the consequences of our actions. But if we all forgive each others then it all stops right then and there is no longer a need to suffer the consequences.

The reason for this is that we are not here to learn those lessons [...] by suffering their consequences, we are here to learn how to make those lessons obsolete.

So there is indeed a shortcut. That is the beauty of it. But it seems that for most people, taking that shortcut is actually harder than suffering through those other lessons.