Forgiveness comes forth through Compassion.
Compassion is born of Understanding.
To truly forgive one’s self, or an other, one must have an understanding of how one has been served by an experience in which forgiveness is now sought.
Forgiveness is not an act of granting approval to one’s self or an other for an action that was harmful in some manner.
Forgiveness is an act of Completion.
Forgiveness is the act of releasing oneself from a lesson, now achieved.
Forgiveness is the acknowledgment of one’s smaller being to Source, that one has come to an understanding of the lesson of a challenging experience and has now reaped the knowledge of the experience that was of value in bringing growth to one’s Greater Being.
Forgiveness is also the releasing of that which was not of value to the Greater Being, from within the experience.
Those on the Journey to Wholeness via the path of Self-Healing, often become frustrated when an experience they feel they have found closure upon through forgiveness, arises once again for them, sometimes years later.
Often current life experiences that precipitate a need of coming to the state of forgiveness are manifestations of a much deeper root situation.
If you find a situation in your life reopened that you felt you had closed and achieved forgiveness within, by acknowledging this as an opportunity for deeper healing, you allow your Greater Self to lead you to Higher Understandings bringing forth Compassion from which the Highest Expression of Forgiveness springs.
~kachina
Into the Mystic 
Happy New Year, Kachina!
Thank you for your enlightening entry. Reading your blog always calms me down.
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Thank you Red. 🙂
Hoping all is well with you and that you find this New Year to be one of peace and growth.
kachina
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There is so much to be digested in what you’ve written here, Kachina. It’s almost like each line could be a meditation/koan in itself, standing alone. I kept rereadingit , and each time found myself zoning out after about 3 lines and having to pull myself back in.
There is so much in me that does not want to forgive. It’s something I work on fairly regularly, and at times seem to be doing well and at other times, it’s back to square one.
I made a list of The Unforgiven, and they were all people I was once quite close to…ties it was a shame to lose because I couldn’t handle hurtful things that occurred or judgements I made of their behavior.
This line alone could have been a post, and if it were fully grasped, could end unforgiveness right here and now:
“Forgiveness is the act of releasing oneself from a lesson, now achieved.”
thanks again for another catalytic piece of writing. Donna
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You’re very welcome, Donna. 🙂
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