Hey, hey, hey. I hope that everyone is in good spirits. Everyone is a clear mind and everyone is ready for the day, whatever it may bring. On today's episode, I want to talk about something very important. And we will all experience this and it is the act of forgiveness. And like always, I want to start this off with the quote, which is the act of forgiveness.

And like always, I want to start this off with the quote, which reads,

forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

And that is by Jonathan Hewley.

We will at some point cross a territory, a place where forgiveness will be a decision that we make.

Some circumstances are far grave than others, but ultimately we have to come to a place of forgiveness. Unforgiveness will eat away at every molecule that we have in ourselves. And it's only because the unforgiveness that we harbor

allows us to extend this hurtfulness and this callousness towards that thing or that

someone. We are constantly putting ourselves in a state of madness by not accepting that what had

happened happened and therefore there is nothing that can be done

after the betrayal or the hurt that is felt forgiveness comes in stages and I would err in caution that

whenever things do happen destructive, hurtful, damaging to who we are,

that we don't miss the sense of sitting in it for a while and allowing ourselves to experience it as it is.

Sometimes people act on forgiveness to quickly get it over with, but what they realize is that

forgiving too early too soon because, you know, this is what the Bible tells us or that they feel that

this notion to forgive easily or soon will somehow erase all of the things that they have felt

in the first place. And what tends to happen is forgiving too soon means that you're not over it.

And even when you walk the path of saying that you forgave, you don't.

So let me give you an example.

You have a friend and this friend betrayed you in such a way

where it may have been something that you said and privacy was shared with another person and you found

out that they they told it got back to you and this was your deepest darkest secret this was something that you

shared with the person that you felt so connected with and that was betrayal for you you acted on

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