Going Deep with Wanda Holland Greene on Forgiveness

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Forgiveness may be the most advanced intellectual and emotional move we make as humans. It is a complete override of our innate nature to categorize friend and foe. Along with thought leader Wanda Holland Greene, Kelly brings to life three unforgettable stories of forgiveness from around the world. Follow the conversation on Instagram @kellycorrigan. Previously aired.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering about forgiveness.
0:12.4	I got thinking about it because in this context where everybody's pointing fingers at everybody else,
0:17.8	it seemed like a super skill that might save us all.
0:21.4	And then I came across this beautiful passage by Mother Teresa
0:26.6	about accepting each other's contradictions and passing over the mistakes of others, to accept being slighted, forgotten, and
0:34.8	disliked, to be kind and gentle even under provocation. And it reminded me of a
0:39.8	conversation I had at the very beginning of Kelly Corrigan Wonders with a woman named Wanda Holland Green.
0:45.0	She's an educator who cares deeply about the development of human beings and therefore
0:51.0	had some very strong feelings about the power of forgiveness for both parties.
0:57.0	So join me for an urgent and it turns out Evergreen conversation with Wanda Holland Green about forgiveness originally taped in November 2020.
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1:37.0	Hey, this is Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering about forgiveness, which has to be one of the most advanced emotional achievements we can hit as people.
1:53.0	I started my research on Medium, my production partner for this series,
1:57.0	and I read about the pros and cons of various types of forgiveness.
2:01.0	There was some pretty juicy stuff on there I must say. Today we're
2:04.8	talking about three astonishing stories of forgiveness that were damn near
2:10.3	unimaginable to both me and my thought partner for this whole series, Wanda Holland
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