"Something More Powerful
Than Forgiveness"

Empathy is the process of creating heart-felt understanding and compassion for another person and their feelings and needs.

Giving somebody empathy is far more powerful than forgiveness. Empathy connects one person’s feelings and needs to the same feelings and needs in the other person, thus creating the magic of a human bond.

Forgiveness, on the other hand, implies that the person was ‘wrong’ and that they ‘owe’ the other an apology for their ‘guilt’ and that the first person might ‘forgive’ their wrong-doing.

People say, ‘If you’re truly sorry for what you’ve done, and the pain you’ve caused me, then perhaps I’ll forgive you.” But, hey! Get out of that world of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, ‘good’ and ‘evil’, deserving and owing! That is the violent, hurtful world that we all grew up in. We’re older now and we want a peaceful, loving world. We want to create a connection with our loved ones, not build a case against then and push them away.

Remember, that all actions are strategies to get a human need...

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