"Young Friends," courtesy of Doug Stalker
As awareness grows, we realize that adversarial relationships are an illusion, and that every difficult encounter has been divinely orchestrated.
Before incarnating, we agreed to participate in situations on earth that would help us learn pivotal lessons, achieve our life’s purpose, and advance our spiritual growth.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
From this perspective. every quarrel, every betrayal, every hostility becomes a gift, an opportunity to grow and evolve.
If you accept that such sacred contracts exist between adversaries, then there is nothing to forgive. You stop seeing yourself as a victim, and view every person you are in conflict with as an instrument of God.
We realize that everyone who crosses our path, no matter how unlikely it seems to our earthbound sensibilities, is our teacher, our collaborator, our ally. On a soul level, we have agreed to challenge and confront each other in ways that benefit us both.
Years from now when we have left this world, we shall meet again; only this time, we will bow in gratitude for serving each other in that way.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
Rumi
HERE ARE MY FORGIVENESS-RELATED POSTS:
EVA KOR: A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR FORGIVES THE UNFORGIVABLE
IMMACULEE ILIBAGEZA: A RWANDA GENOCIDE SURVIVOR WHO COULD ONLY KNOW PEACE THROUGH FORGIVENESS
BILLY VERA: FORGIVENESS IS THE DOORWAY TO HEAVEN
MY VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH SPIRITUAL MEDIUM JAMES VAN PRAAGH
MY 2002 MAGAZINE INTERVIEW WITH WAYNE DYER
CAROLINE MYSS VIDEO ON HOW FORGIVENESS PROMOTES PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALING
WE CHOOSE OUR JOYS AND SORROWS
RECOGNIZE THE LIMITATIONS OF WHO YOU USED TO BE
REWRITE YUR STORY THROUGH FORGIVENESS
LOVE + FORGIVENESS = RELATIONSHIP REPAIR
A PRAYER FOR SENDING PEOPLE LIGHT AND LOVE
ABOUT PHIL BOLSTA
Phil is the author of Sixty Seconds: One Moment Changes Everything, a collection of 45 inspiring, life-changing stories from prominent people he interviewed, including Joan Borysenko, Deepak Chopra, geneticist Dr. Francis Collins, acclaimed sportswriter Frank Deford, Dr. Larry Dossey, Wayne Dyer, Dan Millman, Caroline Myss, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, Dr. Bernie Siegel, James Van Praagh, singer Billy Vera, Doreen Virtue, Neale Donald Walsch, and bassist Victor Wooten.
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December 22, 2009 at 2:01 AM
over time, through faith and perseverance, we learn to accept as our own personal crosses those who are a burden or source of pain in our life, and ponder the meaning of it.
we get even wiser though, when we realize that we may also be fulfilling that same purpose to other people.
December 22, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Yes, it’s all about expanding our perception and wisdom. The more we look for, the more we see. Thank you, ArrVee.