The forgiveness
We are seldom offended; many times we feel offended.
To forgive is to abandon or eliminate an adverse feeling against the brother.
Who suffers: the one who hates or the one who is hated?
The one who is hated lives happily, usually in his world. The one who cultivates rancor is similar to the one who grabs a burning ember or who stirs up a flame; it seems that the flame burns the enemy, but no, it burns oneself.
Resentment only destroys the resentful.
Self love is blind and suicidal; he prefers the satisfaction of revenge to the relief of forgiveness, but it is madness to hate: it is like storing poison in one’s bowels.
The spiteful lives in eternal agony.
There is no tastier fruit in the world than the feeling of rest and relief that comes from forgiving, just as there is no fatigue more unpleasant than the one produced by resentment.
It is worth forgiving, even if it is only out of interest, because there is no therapy more liberating than forgiveness.
P. Ignacio Larrañaga
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