Shakti Gawain (1948–2018) was an American bestselling author, speaker, retreat leader, and internationally renowned teacher in the fields of consciousness and personal growth.
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People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.
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When forgiveness experts talk in binary language (’You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate’), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.
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Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful.
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.