The Gift of Forgiveness

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
~ Lewis B. Smedes

Most of us carry around anger, resentment, jealousy, or some other negative emotion directed to others. Unless dealt with, they will eventually start to broadly affect the quality of our lives and those around us.

Forgiveness is the act of unchaining yourself from thoughts and feelings that bind you to an offense, imagined or real, committed against you. It is a commitment to a process of growth and change. The first step is to recognize the value of forgiveness and the positive impact it can have in our lives. When we forgive, we release the control and power of the offending person and stop playing the victim. We no longer define our lives by how we have been hurt and instead can define ourselves by how we have grown.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
~ Cherie Carter-Scott

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[ORIBEL38]

Great video - music, visuals and message - all beautifully crafted.

Apart from forgiveness, I tell myself that only I can offend myself. And this stops me from blaming others for offending me. When there's no judgement or blame and only compassion, there's no need for forgiveness.

[Itsymom]

Lets's move forward, break the chains that bound us to past wrongs commited against us! sounds easy but takes effort, resolution and a higher perspective of the self to come to terms with forgiveness, its a long road and a lenghty process... thank you for the video.

Namaste!

[thomas43ification]

...Forgiveness is for the Gods. We as mortal beings use it to control others, since we cannot truly forgive anything once a deed is done. Nothing changes after we forgive; the hand that was cut-off is still gone. We merely dilute reality in forgiveness. We build a wall around the truth.The greatest tragedy is to tell another human that to forgive will help. It is like drinking sand and expecting it to replenishment your thirst. ~ Louis III

[RabAdamson]

I Forgive myself I AM free I love Myself I Love You 

[lilylandis]

Ty<3

[vladana108]

Beautiful video. Thank you.

[1MISTRESSKAJUN]

@johnmv8888 BEAUTIFULLY STATED.

[jorj119]

wonderful!

[shalimarsgirl]

@johnmv8888 "YOU..US...IS...LOVE" I noticed the capitalized words in your comments. When someone we love loses sight of love and hurts us, by forgiving them in our hearts, (even if their pride cannot utter the words "I'm sorry") and by still

showing them kindness and forgiveness - we have set our hearts free, and can hope they will find the happiness that real love brings.

[aubreyfarmer]

Forgive one another. I agree completely. That does not mean justice is forgotten. Thus we have nations of law and not of man. Common sense demands that "Those that don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." So forgive (for your own peace of mind) but never forget.

[ramaraksha01]

It must come from both sides - would you forgive Hitler, a Saddam? Those are extreme examples but it is easy to forgive a person who has genuinely changed, so sometimes it takes both sides.