Forgiveness

When someone hurts us, we sometimes hold a grievance against them. We judge and reject them. We withhold our forgiveness from them.

A grievance acts as an energetic block that impedes the flow of love. We believe we are cutting off our love for the other person, but in reality, we are cutting off love from ourselves. We are only hurting ourselves.

When we cut ourselves off from love, we eventually feel depleted of it. We feel judged and rejected, isolated and disconnected. We experience all the things we wish the other person would feel.

In such a love-starved state, we try to will love to come to us and seek it out in our external environment. We want to be replenished of love because we suffer without it. However, when we willfully seek love, we negate its authenticity, and the cycle of suffering only continues.

The path to restoring the flow of love requires forgiveness. Forgiveness does not mean excusing the other person’s behavior. It means being able to differentiate between the light of their divinity and the limitations of their human experience. It means understanding that, despite our best efforts, we all unintentionally transfer our unresolved pain onto others.

Forgiveness plants the seeds of compassion for the pain and suffering we experience collectively as human beings. It is the tool by which we free ourselves and restore the flow of love to us. Forgiveness is ultimately an act of self-love that allows us to return to our true nature.