This poetic book of "challenges and meditations" provides the keys to a healing change of mind and heart.
"A gentle, simple book that enables the ideal of forgiveness to act upon our minds with revolutionary force." -- Jacoob Needleman, author of A Little Book on Love. "What beautiful work . . . clearheaded, generous, and profound in its lush simplicity. The world seems somehow more ready these days to hear and act upon this book's message." -- Wally Lamb, novelist, author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True
Excerpt
It might seem a lot easier to forgive someone if only he or she would show signs of changing. The paradox is that we are unlikely to see signs of change in others until we have forgiven them. This is true for two reasons: First, resentment is blinding. It limits our perception of what is real (or changing) in the present, and shuts down our capacity to envision a happier future. Second, a subtle but crucial function of forgiveness is that it tacitly gives others permission to change...
When you are trying to decide whether someone deserves your forgiveness, you are asking the wrong question. Ask instead whether you deserve to be someone who consistently forgives.
“Sweet revenge” is junk food for the soul. The brief rush that revenge provides will always be followed by the degradation of one’s character. There is a real joy to be found in setting things right, but that always involves changing oneself for the better first.
Forgiveness is the science of the heart: a discipline of discovering all the ways of being that will extend your love to the world, and discarding all the ways that do not.
This second revised edition describes, from Onlinesss Self Awakening perspective, the major Truth-consciousness realm-waves of transcendent Self Awakening
