Forgiveness
Self-Forgiveness is the Bridge over the Chasm of Resentment
PEP: A Personal Evolution Practice based in the Tao Te Ching
βSomeone must risk returning injury with kindness,
or hostility will never turn to goodwill.
So the wise always give without expecting gratitude.β*
It is only the ego that, needing to be right and recognized, holds on to resentment.
If you continue to hold on to the past, clinging to a past narrative, however painful β one that you play over and over, embellishing, re-living, and re-creating β you are choosing to stay back, one foot firmly rooted in a past event you cannot change.
Emotions like kindness, love, compassion, and humility will help you soften the harsher emotions like frustration, anger, and rage to see the futility of holding on to what you cannot change.
In an act of personal responsibility, you forgive yourself first by allowing yourself to let go of past transgressions.
It is a choice and a liberating awareness to see resentment as an emotion that pulls you out of the present moment. When you forgiveβ¦