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Do We Have to Forgive Everything?

By Thich Nhat Hanh — 2015

Thich Nhat Hanh answers questions during a retreat in Plum Village (May, 2014).

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Exploring Forgiveness

Pioneers in the study of forgiveness, Robert Enright and Joanna North have compiled a collection of twelve essays ranging from a first-person account of the mother of a murdered child to an assessment of the United States’ post-war reconciliations with Germany and Vietnam.

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Robert Enright (editor), Joanna North (editor)
1998
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Forgiveness Is a Choice: A Step-by-Step Process for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope

Forgiveness Is a Choice is a self-help book for people who have been deeply hurt by another and caught in a vortex of anger, depression, and resentment. As a creator of the first scientifically proven forgiveness program in the country, Robert D.

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Robert D. Enright
2001
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8 Keys to Forgiveness

While it may seem like a simple enough act, forgiveness is a difficult, delicate process which, if executed correctly, can be profoundly moving and a deep learning experience.

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Robert Enright
2015
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The Long Road to Forgiveness

If we all recognize that forgiveness has the power to liberate us from the past, then why are we so reluctant to grant it?

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Molly Layton
1999
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The Forgiving Life: A Pathway to Overcoming Resentment and Creating a Legacy of Love

The Forgiving Life offers scientifically supported guidance to help people forgive those in their lives who have acted unfairly and have inflicted emotional hurt. It does not minimize the devastation of that hurt or require reconciliation with the one who inflicted the hurt.

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Robert D. Enright
2012
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Forgiveness Meditation

Forgiveness of others, forgiveness of yourself.

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Jack Kornfield
2011
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Nine Steps to Forgiveness

How to forgive, from Fred Luskin, Ph.D. — director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects.

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Frederic Luskin
2004
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe must not confuse letting go of past injuries with feeling an obligation to let the injurers back into our life. The freedom of forgiveness often includes a firm boundary and loving distance from those who have harmed us.

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Noah Levine
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen forgiveness experts talk in binary language (’You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate’), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.

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Harriet Lerner
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FindCenter Quotes ImagePeople’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

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Harriet Lerner
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