07-05-2012, 10:25 AM
(07-05-2012, 10:19 AM)Patrick Wrote: For me, simply forgiving them is showing your unconditional love towards them. You don't have to like them as in aligning with them.
yes, forgiveness is NOTthe surrendering of one's experience and/or emotional investment. Forgiveness is the challenging of one's will and personality to do exactly that which those defy charactersitically for the sake of acknowledging a higher Being, and by higher being I do not mean it in the sense that some have been using that recently as in some future aspect of one's self, but I mean it with regard to the Divine Process of Being.
in other words, to put it bluntly, there are much greater priorities than our individual emotions and our desire to express them according to what we think of the state of others.