Forgiveness Knows No Exclusion

How can I tell when I have forgiven?

I have truly forgiven when I exclude no one from the gift of love I accepted for myself; so I must accept forgiveness for myself first.  On a practical basis, I accept forgiveness for myself by bringing all my thoughts of exclusion, hate, annoyance, attack, separation, specialness, and seeing guilt in others to that thought of perfect peace and love that I have obscured in my mind

Forgiveness: Letting go of Judging our Judgments

Forgiveness can be simply defined as:


Looking at the ego without judgment


But what does that really entail at a practical level?  It simply means that we begin the process of letting go of our ego (special self identity) by not judging ourselves when we have thoughts of condemnation.  As long as we continue to condemn ourselves for judgmental thoughts of others (which are really condemning thoughts of who we think we are -- the tiny special ego self that separated from God) then forgiveness is not possible.


Parting thought:  Today I can forgive by simply choosing to look at my judgments without judgment (guilt or condemnation)