FORGIVENESS
“Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.” (Charles William)
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slow down and REFLECT
on the MEANING and the MESSAGE of today’s quotation
“Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.” (Charles Williams)
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In Your Own Words…
In your own words, what is the central message of the above quote by the English poet Charles Williams?
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” (Albert Einstein)
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Getting Personal
Have you ever been forgiven by someone who had resented you because of some harm they experienced as a result of your actions?
If so, what was the harm they claimed to have experienced because of your actions or inaction?
How did you feel about being forgiven? Do you believe that you had deserved to be forgiven?
“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” (John Stuart Mill)
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Quotation AI Assistant
Interested in seeing what artificial intelligence (ai) has to say about the meaning of today’s quotation? Compare it to your own interpretation. You may be fascinated, or even possibly humbled.
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INSIGHTS for SUCCESS
Maybe someone has forgiven you, but that doesn’t necessarily bring closure to the issue. Maybe you had intentionally hurt someone; maybe you had made a careless mistake that injured someone; maybe you had acted foolishly.
You now have been the object of forgiveness. Did you deserve to be forgiven? Are you at peace with the harm you had caused or do you have a guilty conscience? How ready are you to move on as a forgiven person?
“The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.” (Robert Anton Wilson)
“Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.” (Djuna Barnes)
“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.” (Jessamyn West)
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NEW DAY
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