A Lesson from the Spirit

Forgiving offenses is far more important.
To forgive an offense does not simply mean to restore balance or to answer within yourself, freeing and celebrating.
You free not only your heavy heart; you free your fiery mind and your pure soul from their binding chains.
And in this release you do not merely see a new self, full of strength, energy, and resolve—you see the shards of the past slowly reassembling into something new, beautiful, and previously unknown to you.
And this new thing is none other than your memories, those cells of memory you so carefully and for so long kept hidden inside.
Each time you let go of an offense, you are filled with the energy of acceptance and kindness, of mercy, which flows through your veins like oxygen.

To forgive means to let go; it means to allow those memories that were destroying you to reassemble themselves again, like a broken mechanism, like scattered pieces of a picture that did not bring you joy, that made you cry and think of that pain.
Those shards, those pieces of the picture, have not disappeared, but they have been reassembled within you with new understanding, answers, and inspiration.
And so your potential unfolds with a new force of boundless possibilities, with which you go into the world easily and with gratitude.

And by freeing yourself in this way, by seeing opportunities for yourself in the new picture, you open those possibilities to the one for whom you harbored resentment. You let them go, allowing them to breathe again, to think, to understand, so that this person may have the chance to step onto a new stage of their own development.
By holding on to resentment, you hold back the one you are resentful toward; you hold back everyone around you. And in this senseless game both suffer, stubbornly punishing with this oppression.

But there is always a choice. And it is up to you to desire the light or the gloomy darkness.