28 min
Inhabiting the World with Forgiveness Inhabiting the World
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Forgiveness
September 28th, 2021
“If you want to see the brave, look to those who can return love for hatred. If you want to see the heroic, look to those who can forgive.”
The Bhagavad Gita
After the summer holidays, a time to vacate the spirit and recharge the batteries, here I am with a new episode of “Inhabiting the World”. This time, we are going to reflect and meditate on forgiveness.
Fred Luskin, the director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects,
defines forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they deserve your forgiveness.
The essence of forgiveness is being resilient when things don’t go the way you want, being at peace with the vulnerability inherent in human life. But before you can forgive, he says, you must grieve. At the most basic level, forgiveness is on a continuum with grief. When you’re offended or hurt or violated, the natural response is to grieve. All of those problems can be seen as a loss—whether we lose affection or a human being or a dream—and when we lose something, we have a natural reintegration process, which we call grief. Then forgiveness is the resolution of grief.”
Forgiveness
September 28th, 2021
“If you want to see the brave, look to those who can return love for hatred. If you want to see the heroic, look to those who can forgive.”
The Bhagavad Gita
After the summer holidays, a time to vacate the spirit and recharge the batteries, here I am with a new episode of “Inhabiting the World”. This time, we are going to reflect and meditate on forgiveness.
Fred Luskin, the director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects,
defines forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they deserve your forgiveness.
The essence of forgiveness is being resilient when things don’t go the way you want, being at peace with the vulnerability inherent in human life. But before you can forgive, he says, you must grieve. At the most basic level, forgiveness is on a continuum with grief. When you’re offended or hurt or violated, the natural response is to grieve. All of those problems can be seen as a loss—whether we lose affection or a human being or a dream—and when we lose something, we have a natural reintegration process, which we call grief. Then forgiveness is the resolution of grief.”
28 min