Like all things in your life, forgiveness is a choice. By making the choice to grant unconditional forgiveness, you will have brought yourself one step closer to living a life of fulfillment, joy, and deep inner peace. - click here
Forgiveness is the key 2 happiness
Forgiveness is not an occasional act - it is a permanent attitude
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.
HUGE collection of quotes about forgiveness and life in general
Update Nov 2010 -
Click here because that last one is a dud link
Quote land is another HUGE site!
What is Unconditional Love and Forgiveness?
Contains steps to forgiveness of self AND others - saved as forgive4 in viewonbuddhism directory
Forgiveness is a complex experience that changes an offended person's spiritual feelings, emotions, thoughts, actions, and self-confidence level. I believe learning to forgive the hurts and grudges of our life may be an important step for us to feel more hopeful and spiritually connected and less depressed. These changes improve our health and give us more energy to create a better life for ourselves. They allow our bodies to function in an optimal way.
~ Fred Luskin in Forgive for Good
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
~ Marianne Williamson in A Return to Love
A better world through forgiveness
Lookin 4 a dud link turns up a few
Prayer of Forgiveness
Dear Mother God, Father God, and the Holy Spirit:
I forgive myself for any pain and suffering that I have brought upon myself through my past and present judgements of myself. I will love and have compassion for myself and I will be the love that I am.
I am praying for those who have caused, and those who will cause me great pain and suffering. As a being of love it is my will to forgive those souls. I understand that their actions that caused this pain and suffering came from their false ego and not their soul, as their souls know the love they truly are.
From my heart and my soul I send my love and forgiveness to these people in the hope that they will receive this love and forgiveness and understand the person that I truly am. I pray for these people to feel this love and forgiveness within their heart and soul because I know that when this happens they will know me for the Love that I am.
Please have mercy for those who judge me, fear me, and are jealous of me. Have mercy upon those who are close to me and have betrayed me or will betray me for they have forgotten the beautiful and loving person that I am. From my heart and my soul I forgive these people who have betrayed me or will betray me for I understand that they are still searching for the Truth.
Mother God, Father God, and the Holy Spirit give me the knowledge and wisdom to be the Love that I am and to forgive and have mercy for those who have caused me pain and suffering. It is my will to forgive and have mercy for these people for I know in my heart and my soul that this is your will also.
It is my will to live my life here on earth as the Love that I am, to obey the Universal Laws and Laws of Nature, to help and love people, and to help all people find the Love that you have for them.
I love you, I love myself, and I love and respect all living things.
AMEN
Repeating this prayer daily will bring about many wonderful changes in your life.
This bein the first 2 catch my eye
PRAYER FOR HEALING
When we pray this prayer, Our Lord gently and gradually removes layers of emotional scar tissue while we sleep, allowing us to be happier people.
HEALING PRAYER AT BEDTIME
Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit, go back into my memory as I sleep.
Beliefnet is also a wonderful site
Sermon about forgiving yourself
"If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive."
~ Mother Theresa
End of update
Every hurt that has ever been done to me ... heal that hurt.
Every hurt that I have ever caused to another person ... heal that hurt.
All the relationships that have been damaged in my whole life that I am not aware of ... heal those relationships.
But Lord, if there is anything that I need to do ... if I need to go to a person because he is still suffering from my hand, bring to my awareness that person.
I choose to forgive, and I ask to be forgiven.
Remove whatever bitterness may be in my heart, Lord, and fill the empty spaces with your Love. Thank You Jesus. Amen
Prayer of Forgiveness
Forgiveness Among the unforgiven
www.theforgivingway.com
The last thing learned in life
Forgive them, for they know not what they do
Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance
Forgiveness is good 4 your health
There is also this little quiz - I scored 60 :)
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world
Asking Forgiveness - the Other Side of the Story
The metaphysics of separation and forgiveness
Our friends are those who know their own faults well enough to forgive us ours
Meditation about blame and forgiveness
Interesting discussion on forgiveness ... esp the comments in the 'frame' at the right hand side ... if they are still available, scroll down to March 19, 2002 and "Forgiveness is not a feeling;
Like all things in your life, forgiveness is a choice. By making the choice to grant unconditional forgiveness, you will have brought yourself one step closer to living a life of fulfillment, joy, and deep inner peace. - click here
Forgiveness is the key 2 happiness
Forgiveness is not an occasional act - it is a permanent attitude
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.
HUGE collection of quotes about forgiveness and life in general
Update Nov 2010 -
Click here because that last one is a dud link
Quote land is another HUGE site!
What is Unconditional Love and Forgiveness?
Contains steps to forgiveness of self AND others - saved as forgive4 in viewonbuddhism directory
Forgiveness is a complex experience that changes an offended person's spiritual feelings, emotions, thoughts, actions, and self-confidence level. I believe learning to forgive the hurts and grudges of our life may be an important step for us to feel more hopeful and spiritually connected and less depressed. These changes improve our health and give us more energy to create a better life for ourselves. They allow our bodies to function in an optimal way.
~ Fred Luskin in Forgive for Good
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
~ Marianne Williamson in A Return to Love
A better world through forgiveness
Lookin 4 a dud link turns up a few
Prayer of Forgiveness
Dear Mother God, Father God, and the Holy Spirit:
I forgive myself for any pain and suffering that I have brought upon myself through my past and present judgements of myself. I will love and have compassion for myself and I will be the love that I am.
I am praying for those who have caused, and those who will cause me great pain and suffering. As a being of love it is my will to forgive those souls. I understand that their actions that caused this pain and suffering came from their false ego and not their soul, as their souls know the love they truly are.
From my heart and my soul I send my love and forgiveness to these people in the hope that they will receive this love and forgiveness and understand the person that I truly am. I pray for these people to feel this love and forgiveness within their heart and soul because I know that when this happens they will know me for the Love that I am.
Please have mercy for those who judge me, fear me, and are jealous of me. Have mercy upon those who are close to me and have betrayed me or will betray me for they have forgotten the beautiful and loving person that I am. From my heart and my soul I forgive these people who have betrayed me or will betray me for I understand that they are still searching for the Truth.
Mother God, Father God, and the Holy Spirit give me the knowledge and wisdom to be the Love that I am and to forgive and have mercy for those who have caused me pain and suffering. It is my will to forgive and have mercy for these people for I know in my heart and my soul that this is your will also.
It is my will to live my life here on earth as the Love that I am, to obey the Universal Laws and Laws of Nature, to help and love people, and to help all people find the Love that you have for them.
I love you, I love myself, and I love and respect all living things.
AMEN
Repeating this prayer daily will bring about many wonderful changes in your life.
This bein the first 2 catch my eye
PRAYER FOR HEALING
When we pray this prayer, Our Lord gently and gradually removes layers of emotional scar tissue while we sleep, allowing us to be happier people.
HEALING PRAYER AT BEDTIME
Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit, go back into my memory as I sleep.
Beliefnet is also a wonderful site
Sermon about forgiving yourself
"If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive."
~ Mother Theresa
End of update
Every hurt that has ever been done to me ... heal that hurt.
Every hurt that I have ever caused to another person ... heal that hurt.
All the relationships that have been damaged in my whole life that I am not aware of ... heal those relationships.
But Lord, if there is anything that I need to do ... if I need to go to a person because he is still suffering from my hand, bring to my awareness that person.
I choose to forgive, and I ask to be forgiven.
Remove whatever bitterness may be in my heart, Lord, and fill the empty spaces with your Love. Thank You Jesus. Amen
Prayer of Forgiveness
Forgiveness Among the unforgiven
www.theforgivingway.com
The last thing learned in life
Forgive them, for they know not what they do
Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance
Forgiveness is good 4 your health
There is also this little quiz - I scored 60 :)
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world
Asking Forgiveness - the Other Side of the Story
The metaphysics of separation and forgiveness
Our friends are those who know their own faults well enough to forgive us ours
Meditation about blame and forgiveness
Interesting discussion on forgiveness ... esp the comments in the 'frame' at the right hand side ... if they are still available, scroll down to March 19, 2002 and "Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a decision. Exercise that decision often enough and the feeling will build. It is a muscle that must be developed"
Another search around the same time
October 2003 update -
The virtues - includes forgiveness
Even more views - one of which: "To forgive means there is judgement. If there isn't judgement there will never be a need to forgive."
A couple of searches that led me to those sites -
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives
Discover the refreshing freedom from forgiving yourself and others
Click here & scroll down to Joseph Askew's thought's on Christ & Dostoyevsky {Maybe three quarters of the way down the page}
So I plug his name into a search engine ...
Interesting discussion on forgiveness ... esp the comments in the 'frame' at the right hand side ... if they are still available, scroll down to March 19, 2002 and "Forgiveness is not a feeling;