Here is a beautiful description from  A Course in Miracles of the gifts forgiveness offers.  There is nothing you could want that forgiveness cannot give.

Forgiveness offers:
•    Peace
•    Happiness
•    A quiet mind
•    A certainty of purpose
•    A sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world
•    Care and safety
•    The warmth of sure protection always
•    A quietness that cannot be disturbed
•    A gentleness that never can be hurt
•    A deep, abiding comfort
•    ...
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Me, “We should all get what we want!”

You, “Then, why don’t we?”

Me, “We do!”

You, “What do you mean?  I don’t want pain and I have it.”

Me, “You do want pain, you just don’t want to know that you want it.”

You, “I can see not wanting to know I want pain, but why would I want pain?”

Me , “To justify your misery.”

You, “But pain came first, then my misery.”

Me, “That is a question of the chicken and the egg; which came first?”

You, ...
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Last night thousands celebrated the murder of Osama Bin Laden, including our illustrious President Obama, who had his forces hunt him down and murder him.

I felt deep grief arise, not because Bin Laden was dead - we all die.  But because we are still celebrating murder!

Bin Laden was a murderer because he was a the mercy of his thinking.  We are no different.  We, too, are at the mercy of our thinking.   That is the only way we can still celebrate murder.

To think that we can solve terrorism and...
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