Mark Twain said that forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

And once I let go of that anger and that hatred and all of my attachment to the bonding that I had done with these wounds and let go of that and cleared that out of my life, all of it was allowed to flow when I released that, that energy.

Welcome back to the Quote of the Day show.

I'm your host Sean Croxton of Sean Croxton.com.

You know, just for once in a long time, I didn't feel like doing the whole welcome back to the thing.

I just, you know, let's just change it up every once in a while.

You know, we got Dr. Wayne W. Dyer on the show today. And this is a throwback from a few years ago. If you're a long-term listener, you've definitely heard this maybe two or three times over the years. And it's just one of

those talks that I think we all need, you know, a couple times a year. We all need a little talking to, you know, from time to time.

And in this clip, he is going to encourage you to let go of your resentments and to open

yourself to forgiving others and also forgiving yourself.

Because, you know, when we don't let go and when we don't forgive, those feelings have a way of trapping themselves inside of us.

And they have a tendency to come out in a rather sideways kind of way.

And so let go and forgive and enjoy this episode with Dr. Dyer.

One of the most powerful lessons that you can ever learn.

I had to learn as a young man.

My own father was a man who walked away.

He left.

He left home when I was just a baby. Left my mother. I'm sitting right here.

107 years old. Is that what you know? You're not a. 82 years old, Ellen. And with three little boys.

And all I had ever heard when he walked out about this person that my older brothers told me about

and that my mother got her family back together again when I was nine years old and did all

that she could to make a family again, all the hardships.

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