“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”-belle hooks It’s difficult to extend compassion to, or forgive, someone who has hurt you or people you know.ContinueContinue reading “Monday Meditation: Transform Through Compassion”
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Monday Meditation: Rise Up.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.-Confucius Grief is far from a smooth path. Just when we think we have mastered some emotion or aspect of grief, something comes along and knocks us off kilter. Maybe we react badly, maybe we feel like we failed. Grief isContinueContinue reading “Monday Meditation: Rise Up.”
Monday Meditation: Strength in Forgiveness
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Mahatma Gandhi It takes a lot to forgive someone. Many people refuse to forgive because they may feel that forgiving means forgetting, and letting someone else off the hook for bad behavior. It is quite the opposite. Forgiving requires the ability to actContinueContinue reading “Monday Meditation: Strength in Forgiveness”
Monday Meditation: Forgive for the Future
When you forgive, you in no way change the past—but you sure do change the future. -Bernard Meltzer The grief period is fraught with tension, Grief Supporters behave badly, Grievers hold anger, very few people understand what Grievers are dealing with in their daily lives, etc. To come out of this experience as a strongerContinueContinue reading “Monday Meditation: Forgive for the Future”