I’ve been thinking a lot about choices, karma, being in integrity, and forgiveness.
I had a conversation with a dear friend the other day. We were musing about the choices humans make and the sometimes lack of empathetic capacity people have in regards to their motives and actions.
She said something that someone had mentioned to her the night before…
“When we reach the point of ‘judgement day’ after we die…
we won’t necessarily be answering to God, but instead…
we will be face to face…answering to ourselves.”
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Really take a moment to let the idea of that settle in.
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I felt those words in my entire body.
Maybe you felt the same.
You might even glimpsed a flashback in your minds-eye and saw a reel of moments where you have yet to reach a point of forgiveness.
Forgiveness for self. Forgiveness for other.
Forgiveness for your life lived here on earth thus far.
I know I did.
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May we be gentle and loving with ourselves for knowing what we did when we did, and not live in any regret.
Regret is a negation of the actualization of the reality of what was — it is the karmic lesson, unintegrated.
But wisdom through awareness, and compassion through love, allow the purity of forgiveness to arise within us.
Within, and without, the feeling emanates.
A new choice is made, a new action created, a new cycle initiated.
Endings and Beginnings.
I imagine that the ending, the day when one meets oneself, will also be the beginning of something else.
Beyond time.
As is, forgiveness. Although it may take time.
Still, it is beyond it.
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