The Mindful Universe by Mark Westmoquette

Author:Mark Westmoquette
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ivy Press
Published: 2020-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is one of those tricky concepts that’s easy to understand on the surface, but difficult and confusing to do in reality. As I see it, forgiveness is built into the practice of mindfulness: as we notice, acknowledge and let things be, we let things go. Forgiveness is an act of letting go. A few years back I felt I had reached the point where I was ready to forgive my father for his abuse when I was a child. I still know what he did was deeply wrong and very hurtful, but I realized that the anger I harboured was only hurting me. We arranged a meeting and I told him I forgave him for sexually abusing me. I’m not sure what he made of it, but it felt like a real lightening of some of the load I’d been carrying – a point of transition in my personal development. I can say from my own experience that sexual abuse isn’t intransigent. As the great thirteenth-century poet Rumi said: ‘The wound is the place where the light enters you.’ With work, healing is possible and the learning you gain from dealing with the abuse can become a source of great strength.

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