At the bottom of every wish to forgive, there is always a hurt, some harm done to you, your close family, or on a wider perspective, harm done to people you don’t even know. There is some wounding. Without spiritual awareness, a sense of being more than just a physical personality, it would not be possible to overcome the violence, hurts, or wrongs done to us. It would not be possible to forgive and not seek revenge, or at least, compensation.
Because who was hurt? Not your soul, which only sees the perfection, goodness, harmony and wealth it is. Not your Spirit, which has infused all of its qualities into you and into every one of its expressions, including the person who has hurt you. Spirit sees only its inherent perfection, not the dark clouds we have drawn about ourselves.
Your personality is a cloud not letting the brilliance you are shine through; it’s not the ultimate Reality. Every personality is also a cloud, not ultimate Reality; and what you are experiencing is a “friction of the fictions”, as Michael Beckwith has put it, because the personalities walking this earth are not alive in and of themselves. They are a vehicle for Spirit to experience Itself, a spacesuit Spirit has put on, so it can become visible and active.
Just as we put on a diving suit to explore oceans, or a spacesuit to explore space, that suit has no life of its own, even if it seems to move about and do things; in the same way, our bodies are a suit our soul wears to visibly move around the earth and do things.
But unlike the suits we put on to experience outer space, or the oceans, that have no free will, Spirit’s suit is given Spirit’s energy to use exactly as the suit wants to.
When we are diving, and another diver bumps into us and we get hurt, do we blame the suit, and take revenge on the suit? Or do we know the person wearing the suit didn’t mean to do it, and we let go of the incident.
When we are living our life, let’s remember we are Spirit, not the personality-suit, and so when another personality-suit cheats, or steals, or betrays, in consciousness let’s see them as Spirit and let go of the incident. While it may also be necessary to humanly, respond in some way. The consciousness from which we take action is the most important thing.
Remember this, when another personality-suit bumps into you. Know it’s just a friction of the fictions, that their soul loves you unconditionally, that your soul loves them; and you can rise to the level of your soul, because you have an awareness of who you really are. You can act from that knowing, even if they don’t. They may not have that awareness yet.
You can forgive – while not being a doormat, not condoning bad behavior, nor allowing further damage to yourself.
