“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
— Bruce Lee
So many people I know, myself included find forgiving others to be relatively easy. Sometimes letting go of the hurt can be a lot more difficult. What about forgiving ourselves? In the past I have put so much effort into covering up my mistakes rather than admitting them that I totally lost site of something key. When I cover up a mistake I’ve made, I keep myself in the mistake, and it becomes almost impossible to forgive myself. When I admit to to myself (and almost always that first admission feels necessary) and then others, I can get past it and forge a new reality where that mistake no longer happens. Also the mistake of dishonesty starts getting cleared up to. But deception of self and others will be a topic of another quote and day. Namaste, G
Tomorrow, I will announce the winner of the December Art contest.
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BirdsFlying in a Strangely Angled Sky by G A Rosenberg