By Charles Garfield — 2017
Compassion is anything but abstract. It can be taught and practiced.
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Forgiving someone is a way of letting go of old baggage so that you can heal and move forward with your life. It benefits both the person who forgives and the offender because it can allow both people to let go of past resentments.
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According to the dictionary, to forgive is to stop feeling angry or resentful toward yourself or others for some perceived offense, flaw, or mistake. Keeping that definition in mind, forgiveness becomes a form of compassion.
At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.