What does "The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions" mean?

[Patrick]

I think it comes from our ability to forgive ourselves. For example, if our intent was to do harm and we do it, we may find it harder to forgive ourselves. But if you do harm without having the intent, then you may find it much easier to bring yourself to forgive yourself.

That is one aspect/tool, but not everything requires forgiveness, unless you think it does. We are trying to meet our evolutionary potential, and karma is the expression of that motivating force. So I would say a more generalized view is 'learning', forgiveness can be nested inside that. However the paradigm for 3rd density karma appears to be more specifically centered around forgiveness/acceptance, at higher densities the focus would be different.

I've been pondering this question quite a lot. Only from the 3d veiled perspective though. Does karma requires forgiveness?

So far it seems that whatever one does to balance karma, excluding forgiveness, it never leaves it dead center. It's always balancing from one side to the other in between entities and the self. It seems that every time you succeed to completely stop the inertia is via forgiveness alone. But the process is not always called forgiveness. It may seem for example that you are meditating and pondering and that you reach a point of being able to let go (of some karma) just by doing this work, or breath work, etc.

All the while it could be said that this process was you forgiving yourself and others. There are many ways of achieving this which we may not intuitively think of as forgiveness.