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Forgiveness & Grace: Part One

“Forgiveness,” said William Blake, “is the greatest of all the virtues, because it humbly puts up with ALL vices.”

Few impulses are higher on the scale of human qualities than forgiveness, and few virtues are more important for us to learn.  “Why, if God can forgive each person his or her nine thousand and ninety-nine sins every minute,” asks the Christian mystic William Law, “can we not forgive other persons just one of theirs?” (That hits home.)

And I love the following anecdote because it illustrates this point so beautifully:
A certain general once said to the Protestant reformer John Wesley, “Sir, I never forgive.” “Then, I hope, sir,” replied Wesley, “you never do anything wrong.”
Many of us aren’t even aware of it, but we live a life of reactions rather than responses. As Mahatma Gandhi said, “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.”

Someone gets mad at you and you reply with an intense level of madness. This is called a reaction. In reacting to anger, you are only perpetuating more anger. A response, in this case, would be to constructively understand the criticism and reply with a calm mind.

Let’s say you get five compliments in the morning, you smile all day. And if your boss gives you negative feedback that morning, then you are doomed all day. You keep reacting to other people’s actions toward you. This simply means that you need to develop self-mastery … develop control over your attitude and behavior… cultivate an attitude of forgiveness…

(continued in Part Two)
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