Comments on: Forgiveness And Karma Part 2 http://theadvancedsoul.com/2007/01/25/forgiveness-part-2/ All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:20:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: ugg boots on sale http://theadvancedsoul.com/2007/01/25/forgiveness-part-2/#comment-30903 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:16:21 +0000 http://theadvancedsoul.com/2007/01/25/forgiveness-part-2/#comment-30903 I wanted to drop you a quick note to express my thanks. I’ve been following your blog for a month or so and have up a ton of good information as well as enjoyed the way you’ve structured your site. I wanted to drop you a quick note to express my thanks. I’ve been following your blog for a month or so and have up a ton of good information as well as enjoyed the way you’ve structured your site.

]]> by: penny auctions http://theadvancedsoul.com/2007/01/25/forgiveness-part-2/#comment-21634 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:47:24 +0000 http://theadvancedsoul.com/2007/01/25/forgiveness-part-2/#comment-21634 In this sense, forgiveness has the potential for changing our future – our future actions and therefore their future consequences. In this sense, forgiveness has the potential for changing our future – our future actions and therefore their future consequences.

]]> by: Secret Simon http://theadvancedsoul.com/2007/01/25/forgiveness-part-2/#comment-120 Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:22:05 +0000 http://theadvancedsoul.com/2007/01/25/forgiveness-part-2/#comment-120 Though I am not a Christian in the conventional sense of the word, I think that the words of Jesus on the cross: "Father forgive them for they know not what they do" are very powerful ones to bear in mind when we try to forgive. If we have truly been wronged, then the perpetrator will have done the deed out of ignorance in some form or other: either because they simply didn't realize they were hurting us (which is probably the case more often than we acknowledge) or they were not able to imagine the pain they were causing us, or they did not understand that in causing us pain, they had gone against their own true nature. In all of these cases, in some sense or other, they did not know what they did. We have to bear in mind that life is a learning (or - perhaps more accurately - remembering) process, and that ignorance is a stage which we all pass through as we return to enlightenment. Why should we blame someone else for not understanding? We were there ourselves only yesterday. Though I am not a Christian in the conventional sense of the word, I think that the words of Jesus on the cross: “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” are very powerful ones to bear in mind when we try to forgive. If we have truly been wronged, then the perpetrator will have done the deed out of ignorance in some form or other: either because they simply didn’t realize they were hurting us (which is probably the case more often than we acknowledge) or they were not able to imagine the pain they were causing us, or they did not understand that in causing us pain, they had gone against their own true nature. In all of these cases, in some sense or other, they did not know what they did.

We have to bear in mind that life is a learning (or - perhaps more accurately - remembering) process, and that ignorance is a stage which we all pass through as we return to enlightenment. Why should we blame someone else for not understanding? We were there ourselves only yesterday.

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