I Am Certain That People Never Forgive

Because Arrogance Is Born In Personal Vanity, Arrogant People Are Driven Without Mercy. They Can Never Get Enough Power To Fill The Soul's Needs Or Enough Respect To Overcome The Fear That They Deserve Less Than They Are Getting.

You And I Were Created For Joy, And If We Miss It We Miss The Reason For Our Existence. If Our Joy Is Honest Joy, It Must Somehow Be Congruous With Human Tragedy. This Is The Test Of Joy's Integrity. It Is Compatible With Pain. Only The Heart That Hurts Has A Right To Joy.

Forgiving Does Not Erase The Bitter Past. A Healed Memory Is Not A Deleted Memory.

The Problem With Revenge Is That It Never Evens The Score. It Ties Both The Injured And The Injurer To An Escalator Of Pain. Both Are Stuck On The Escalator As Long As Parity Is Demanded, And The Escalator Never Stops.

Once We Have Forgiven, However, We Get A New Freedom To Forget. This Time Forgetting Is A Sign Of Health; It Is Not A Trick To Avoid Spiritual Surgery. We Can Forget Because We Have Been Healed. But Even If It Is Easier To Forget After We Forgive, We Should Not Make Forgetting A Test Of Our Forgiving. The Test Of Forgiving Lies With Healing The Lingering Pain Of The Past, Not With Forgetting The Past Has Ever Happened.