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Thank you for another uplifting post.
“What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want care and safety, and the warmth of sure protection always? Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep, abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset?
Thank you for the comment. I also read this lesson 122 (in Dutch!!). What this lesson doesn’t say or explain is, that once you come to realize that no one ever did anything wrong, including yourself, that forgiveness is not necessary. And, according to my experience, forgiveness doesn’t even exist. Forgiveness has a taste of superiority, like: “I” know better and “I” forgive you. When you realize that you and the other are the same, then there is nothing to forgive and compassion and love arise.
What prevents us from seeing the “same” is the ego’s desire to see “sin” in the “other.” So in Course terminology you are forgiving your own illusions.
This is onew of the nice and wonderful poems I have red in my life. It touches the inner heart and deepen the relationship with someone you have never forgiven. Now I realise that forgivenss comes first before anything even bofore the apology. When you forgive you stay at peace with that person and the love always flows like stream of water in chilly wind and you start experiencing the breeze of wonderful like in you.
Keep on posting more poems I like reading and understanding too.