“The secret to having it all is loving it all.” - Dr. Joyce
Brothers
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The magic of “the secret
of having it all is loving it all” is forgiveness.
Forgiveness can be a
momentous experience. Not everyone wants to forgive.
Some believe forgiveness
would mean giving permission for the same thing to reoccur. That kind of pain
keeps them emotional hostage to their beliefs. This is prison.
I knew a person who was
very bitter. She was this way probably 50 years. She wouldn’t consider
forgiving. She believed that they didn’t
deserve it. She held on to those feelings of being wronged to her deathbed.
Her feelings of being
wronged were much stronger than ‘loving it all’. She said it wasn’t in her to forgive. She
lived her life with a background of hate, anger and resentment. The quality of
her life was severely compromised.
When wronged feelings
are held, there are coinciding emotions that have an impact in our daily
living, our relationships and mostly our health.
Forgiving is an
accumulation of wisdom such as:
- Forgiveness isn’t for the offender, its for your peace of mind
- Forgiving doesn’t mean for you to forget
- Forgiving doesn’t mean that you “free” that person to repeat
- It means releasing you from the prison of wronged feelings
- It means the freedom to love
- It means more energy
- It means laughing and experiencing life in a new light
If you have the closets
of your mind filled with wronged feelings, perhaps you’re ready to make a new
choice, experience more energy and have a life – like you’ve wished for and
never imagined possible.
Forgiveness is the
secret to having it all and loving it all.
Thanks for sharing. You are absolutely right on. I have just finished reading the book, "Radical Forgiveness". It has changed me.
ReplyDelete:) I will look into "Radical Forgiveness" Thanks for sharing.
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