March 2004 Celestial Timings
By Carolyn Brent
Redefining Forgiveness in the New Paradigm:
Moving from Conflict to Co-operation
http://www.choosingforgiveness.org/redefined.htm
All forgiveness is self-forgiveness.
Your [experience of] the world is the result
of your combined state of thought and feeling -
[your arena] of consciousness. [Since your experience of the] world is a result
of your state of consciousness,
then if you hate anyone, you are disliking a part of yourself.
-Raymond Charles Barker
Forgiveness does not mean, "What you did is okay to me."
It simply means, I am no longer willing to
carry around pain in response to your actions".
-Doreen Virtue
Forgiveness is my choice to release such pain,
even though the memory of its occasion remains.
Forgiveness changes the way I feel
about the past in my present experience.
In releasing pain occasioned by other's mistreatment, I do not condone the mistreatment.
Nor in releasing pain occasioned by misfortune, do I deny the misfortune.
Though I may continue to remember my past mistreatment
or misfortune, and to persist in restoring justice and harmony where harm has occurred,
I no longer allow the pain of past mistreatment and misfortune to define my present experience.
Forgiveness empowers reconciliation where estrangement has prevailed. Forgiveness empowers reunion where
hostility has prevailed. Forgiveness empowers our acceptance of others where non-acceptance has prevailed…
Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past.
-Author Unknown
I am now choosing a new relationship
to the influence of painful past experience,
by allowing the pain to be O.K.
while I cease to indulge in it.
The past is in reality a current thought. Since we can change thoughts and, thereby, change our experience of reality, we can, in fact, change our experience of the past.
This is a principle role of forgiveness, changing the way the past shows up in our present experience of reality.
-Ed Preston
Forgiveness is the movement from working against
one another at cross-purposes (win-lose conflict)
to working together (win-win co-operation).
Wherever there is conflict, non-forgiveness abides.
Wherever there is co-operation –
working together rather than at cross-purposes – considerable forgiveness has occurred to make this possible.
The emotional and mental energy that I formerly invested
in keeping past pain alive is now available to my
greater aliveness in the present moment….and so it is.
Forgiveness is the path of those who would realize the harmonizing wholeness of their being.
March 2004 Celestial Timings
By Carolyn Brent