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How difficult it is to feel and ask for FORGIVENESS with one’s heart. Our pride, ego, fury, frustration, and vulnerability keeps us prisoners in this dark well of ignorance and how much we suffer, but when FORGIVENESS emerges, we feel light, serene, and full of energy and love; we have learned that we must change our attitude to obtain peace.

Forgiveness emerges from our inner strength; it arises when we face ourselves with our pride, ego, pain, hate, fury, and resentment, and we understand that it isn’t worth it to continue living in this dark well of resentment that drowns us more and more.

We cannot forgive others if we haven’t first forgiven ourselves. When we feel how the painful sore opens up again and we once again feel that suffering, that pain that tears at our soul, when memories come to the surface time and time again, we start to ask ourselves, why does this story, this same scenario but with different actors, keep repeating?, why do I go from one relationship to the next?, why?, why? Until we understand and accept that we are responsible for the circumstances of our life and from that precious moment on, the energy, the feeling of FORGIVENESS, begins to emerge; this change in attitude makes us feel compassion towards other people and guilt towards ourselves for having these harsh feelings: hate, fury, jealousy, frustration, and for having created pain in others and ourselves freely.

Forgiveness is born from the TRUTH. When we are capable of taking off our mask and seeing “the truth”, observing what has truly happened, without any frills, when we bear our goal to ourselves, we are ready to forgive.

With FORGIVENESS, compassion also surfaces; compassion teaches us to change our attitude, to be focused on action and not on reaction, to not use physical or mental violence. AHIMSA, the movement of non-violence, teaches us to be in the NOW, and this attitude and way of life makes us aware that it is better to live a light, calm life, to fight to obtain peace, to communicate and share with others, from heart to heart.

It isn’t enough to say “I’m sorry” or “I apologize”; these words, if they are not filled with wisdom, are hollow and get us nowhere. We cannot transform the feeling of “pain” that we carry inside of us if we really don’t feel forgiveness in our hearts.

The power of FORGIVENESS needs a generous heart that is capable of slaying one’s ego in order to forgive both the past and the present. Only Forgiveness will alleviate the pain and will allow us to feel love and serenity. A joyous, light heart allows us to have a calm life, and a heart full of hatred makes us live a terrible existence full of resentment, pain, and aggression, since our heart feels the heaviness of these harsh feelings. That’s where we get the phrase “heart of stone”, with these feelings we would be zombies, more dead than alive.

Let us forgive, forgive, forgive ourselves and others from the depths of our soul and live a calm and full life. Moving forward means forgiving.

From Forgiveness, a new wisdom also emerges, everything falls into place like a finished puzzle; our new attitude helps us to better understand daily situations and we can make correct decisions since they are made with serenity.

The TRUTH is the truth; no matter how we run, hide, or disguise ourselves, light will always emerge. FORGIVENESS, COMPASSION, AHIMSA, THE NOW, and BALANCE are important attitudes that we must all develop. It is a new way of life based on respect, loyalty, integrity, and honesty.

“Balance between heaven and earth.

Balance between the human being and the planet.”