God will never forgive you because God has never condemned you. You need only forgive the people, places, and things that disturb your peace of mind, as they are all symbolic of what's in your own subconscious mind. And as you do so, you are forgiving yourself for making it all up in the first place.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Why Forgive?
Forgiveness is a gift that you always give to yourself. There are people and situations out there (seemingly) in the world that may push your buttons, and generate some uncomfortableness within you (anger, jealousy, resentment, fear, guilt, feelings of inferiority/superiority etc.) These type of people and situations that come into your life are symbolic of what's in your own unconscious mind. And until all that is healed through the process called 'true forgiveness' you will continue to experience these feelings. As you forgive somebody or something, you are really forgiving an aspect of yourself that needs healing by your forgiveness. Whether you realize or not, its always yourself you're really forgiving. So the benefits of forgiveness always go to the forgiver.
Here's an example of what will happen if you don't forgive. Say your in a work place and you are intimidated by your boss and he or she is a insensitive jerk and mistreats you, and on the level of form you may very well be right. But would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy? As it says in DU, there are only two things you can do, see the problem as being outside of yourself and judge, or correctly forgive it. As Pursah says '....those are the only two choices no matter how complex the world may seem.' So if you decide to quit your job because you hate your boss, and move on to another job, well, guess what? You will attract another boss just like that previous boss (if not sooner, than later) unless true forgiveness has been applied. We can't runaway from these things, wherever you go, there you are! This path puts us in the driver's seat, all we have to do is choose that voice of the holy spirit, or higher self, and we can't lose!
The biggest thing on this spiritual path is that we have to take full responsibility for everything we experience. There are no victims in this world! Whatever we experience in our lives that we do not like is of our own making; we do this to ourselves, including the things that are not seemingly our fault. As we take full responsibility for everything we experience, and forgive, there will be less and less things that can push our buttons, because the buttons will have been removed by our forgiveness. You will then find certain things that once disturbed your peace of mind, to be easily laughed at! An that alone makes this spiritual path worth doing. And then eventually we'll get to point where we can be like J, and laugh at anything that comes our way!
: )
Here's an example of what will happen if you don't forgive. Say your in a work place and you are intimidated by your boss and he or she is a insensitive jerk and mistreats you, and on the level of form you may very well be right. But would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy? As it says in DU, there are only two things you can do, see the problem as being outside of yourself and judge, or correctly forgive it. As Pursah says '....those are the only two choices no matter how complex the world may seem.' So if you decide to quit your job because you hate your boss, and move on to another job, well, guess what? You will attract another boss just like that previous boss (if not sooner, than later) unless true forgiveness has been applied. We can't runaway from these things, wherever you go, there you are! This path puts us in the driver's seat, all we have to do is choose that voice of the holy spirit, or higher self, and we can't lose!
The biggest thing on this spiritual path is that we have to take full responsibility for everything we experience. There are no victims in this world! Whatever we experience in our lives that we do not like is of our own making; we do this to ourselves, including the things that are not seemingly our fault. As we take full responsibility for everything we experience, and forgive, there will be less and less things that can push our buttons, because the buttons will have been removed by our forgiveness. You will then find certain things that once disturbed your peace of mind, to be easily laughed at! An that alone makes this spiritual path worth doing. And then eventually we'll get to point where we can be like J, and laugh at anything that comes our way!
: )
Sunday, April 6, 2008
What is Forgiveness?
From A Course in Miracles
What is Forgiveness?
Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin, except a false idea about God's Son? Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. The mind is closed, and will not be released. The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason. What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
An unforgiving thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path. Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. It merely looks, and waits, and judges not. He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive. But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success. He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God. Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.
God Is
What is Forgiveness?
Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin, except a false idea about God's Son? Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. The mind is closed, and will not be released. The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason. What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
An unforgiving thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path. Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. It merely looks, and waits, and judges not. He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive. But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success. He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God. Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.
God Is
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