Awesome Joe, forgiveness truly has amazing potential to be a tool of self-empowerment. It is unfortunate how the term has been "corrupted" by religion over the years and has been made into the opposite of it's real potential to have us give our power away to belief systems. On the other hand, that in itself is something we can change through forgiveness of ourselves for having considered for even a moment that we must suffer in judgment, guilt and shame in the name of a higher authority and that we have not realized ourselves as that authority.
Yes that is a very cool thing. Because we can start with forgiving ourselves for the way we have been accepting the idea of "forgiveness" lol. And already that puts us on a different footing than where we were before.
"Self-forgiveness is a fascinating thing because it does not require that you meet a precondition. It does not require you to believe in a certain god or religious ideology. It does not require that you 'atone' and feel guilty for your wrong doing. It requires you to only have the courage to live your self-honesty and be willing to be the better version of you - and the change that comes with that courage can be instantaneous - because you will realize if your self-forgiveness has been effective, has been deep, has been genuine, that the only thing that was holding you back was always yourself."
Awesome Joe, forgiveness truly has amazing potential to be a tool of self-empowerment. It is unfortunate how the term has been "corrupted" by religion over the years and has been made into the opposite of it's real potential to have us give our power away to belief systems. On the other hand, that in itself is something we can change through forgiveness of ourselves for having considered for even a moment that we must suffer in judgment, guilt and shame in the name of a higher authority and that we have not realized ourselves as that authority.
Yes that is a very cool thing. Because we can start with forgiving ourselves for the way we have been accepting the idea of "forgiveness" lol. And already that puts us on a different footing than where we were before.
"Self-forgiveness is a fascinating thing because it does not require that you meet a precondition. It does not require you to believe in a certain god or religious ideology. It does not require that you 'atone' and feel guilty for your wrong doing. It requires you to only have the courage to live your self-honesty and be willing to be the better version of you - and the change that comes with that courage can be instantaneous - because you will realize if your self-forgiveness has been effective, has been deep, has been genuine, that the only thing that was holding you back was always yourself."
Awesome
Thanks @joekou