What does it meanDuality to forgive? Early in my journey of self-growth, I came to the understanding that forgiveness allowed me to go on without the heavy load of bitterness and anger weighing me down. Forgiveness allowed me to move on without dragging the past with me. As I study the Course in Miracles, I am coming to understand forgiveness in another way… a way that I believe to be much more loving than my earlier understanding, which was much more “me” oriented.
Forgiving another means understanding that when we live under the crazed dictates of egoic thinking, we make errors in perception. We operate within a “get them before they get you” world, a world of separation and individualism. We do our best to survive and succeed in a world based on competition; we strive to reach levels of power and prestige that mean we have to outdo someone else. We worry that someone else will try to “get” what we have accomplished and accumulated, and we think we need to defend what we believe to be ours. Within this framework, people lash out at us and hurt us. We do the same to others believing that we are right to judge others and that they deserve our anger and, if at all possible, retribution. Isn’t that what the concept of sin is all about? Isn’t it about judging someone as “bad” and believing that punishment must follow so that another can atone for his/her sins?
We believe this because we live within a world created by ego and, therefore of, misperception. This belief is not what is truth. What is truth? We are all God’s children, and we are all created from God’s boundless Love. As Divine extensions of God, we are unconditional, eternal Love at our cores. We are all created from the same loving energy, and therefore, we are all brothers and sisters, connected by the energy that vibrates within us and flows between us. We are loving spiritual beings who have lost our way, believing that we could separate from God. We have lost sight of what is true and meaningful, as we allowed ourselves to be misinformed and misdirected by ego.
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