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FindCenterForgiveness is not just a selfish pursuit of personal satisfaction or righteousness. It actually alleviates the amount of suffering in the world.

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Noah Levine
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FindCenterWe must not confuse letting go of past injuries with feeling an obligation to let the injurers back into our life. The freedom of forgiveness often includes a firm boundary and loving distance from those who have harmed us.

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Noah Levine
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FindCenterForgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

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FindCenterNot forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

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Anne Lamott
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FindCenterForgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You’re done. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare . . .

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Anne Lamott
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FindCenterForgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.

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Lama Surya Das
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FindCenterBut inevitably, when I can’t harm the people who harmed me, I just end up harming the people who love me. So maybe retaliation or holding on to anger about the harm done to me doesn’t actually combat evil. Maybe it feeds it.

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Nadia Bolz-Weber
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FindCenterIt would seem that when we are sinned against, when someone else does us harm, we are in some way linked to that sin, connected to that mistreatment like a chain. And our anger, fear, or resentment doesn’t free us at all. It just keeps us chained.

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Nadia Bolz-Weber
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