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How to Go Through Life with Love in Your Heart

By Eve Ekman — 2020

A Q&A with Tara Brach about offering radical compassion to yourself and others.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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How to Live Compassionately: Forgive Yourself Forgive Others

According to the dictionary, to forgive is to stop feeling angry or resentful toward yourself or others for some perceived offense, flaw, or mistake. Keeping that definition in mind, forgiveness becomes a form of compassion.

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Reaching Out for Compassion

At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.

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Feeling Weighed Down by Regret? What Helps Me Let Go

If we can process our regrets with tenderness and compassion, we can use these hard memories as a part of our wisdom bank.

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Say You're Sorry and Mean It

Forgiving someone is a way of letting go of old baggage so that you can heal and move forward with your life. It benefits both the person who forgives and the offender because it can allow both people to let go of past resentments.

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A Rabbi’s Guide on Making Amends and Letting Those Grudges Go

Judaism offers a series of ideas and guidelines for how to cope with offense and foster forgiveness. On Yom Kippur, it’s traditional to wear white, not only because white shows the slightest stain, but to remind us of the shrouds in which we will one day be buried.

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Eight Keys to Forgiveness

Forgiveness can be incredibly difficult. Robert Enright explains where to start.

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How We Think About Forgiveness at Different Ages

Children's understanding of forgiving develops as they grow older.

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Fake Forgiveness Is Toxic for Relationships

Accepting an apology or brushing off a slight can benefit the offender and the offended alike—but only if you really commit to it.

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The Long Road to Forgiveness

If we all recognize that forgiveness has the power to liberate us from the past, then why are we so reluctant to grant it?

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Forgiveness Meditation

Forgiveness of others, forgiveness of yourself.

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