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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
INTENTION.
A determination to act in a certain way. Resolve.
What one intends to do or bring about.
A process or manner of healing an incised wound.
Step six on the path to learning forgiveness seems almost too logical:
INTEND to be a forgiving person.
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As French existentialist/philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said, “Freedom is what we do with what has been done to us.”
The fifth step toward forgiveness is our understanding that, like with most things in life, it takes time, effort and practice. Learning to forgive is a process. We may take three steps forward and two steps back, but so long as we keep our eye on the destination, the day will come when we are free of the weight of our burden.
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The 4th step to forgiveness is knowing that…….
……we do not need to be loyal to our pain. There is no need for us to carry it around with us. It is such a heavy burden.
We should not allow our pain or hurt to define who we are. There is so much more to us than “victim”.
What a relief to give ourselves permission to live in peace and contentment, even amidst angry, miserable people.
“But how can I possibly allow myself to enjoy life when there is so much suffering around me?” Because we honor the suffering in the world by seeing the joy in life. There is so much pain and suffering in the world that if that was ALL there was to life, then life itself would be hopeless.
As the French writer Andre Gide said, “Know that joy is rarer, more difficult and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he, himself, must pass. – Lord Herbert
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“A man must learn to forgive himself”. — Arthur Davison Ficke
One of life’s fundamental success principles is learning to forgive. Yet it’s not enough to simply learn how to forgive others. Which is and of itself, one of life’s biggest challenges.
Bigger still is doing it to yourself. Life will never be complete without the critically fundamental act of forgiving yourself.
Many people in, or nearing, mid life find this difficult. We carry “baggage“. Apparently, we like carrying baggage. Why else would we carry so much of it? It gives us excuses for why we are like we are.
Well, I dislike baggage. Perhaps if we really wanted to change, we would. So maybe, many of us are co-dependent on ourselves.
Hope your day is full of self-discovery. Self-discovery in mid-life can be painful to admit. It can also be the key to letting go of our baggage and learning how to travel with a lighter suitcase.