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@noonessleep end/ No simple fix, though, is there? "Almost 2/3 of Jesus' teachings are directly or indirectly about forgiveness," notes Rohr. Why? Our life, every moment, a supernatural locus of personal and cosmic redemption, renewal and rebirth; an unceasing process, practice and learning.

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The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Geometric art with text fragment, reading: The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. Henri J.M. Nouwen

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We must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
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Art, with a text fragment, reading: We must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness. Rheinhold Niebuhr

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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
H. Arendt
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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 20 Jun 2022

@SophiaCycles So, I was off rummaging around #Juneteenth and this arrived. A meditation, then: "It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.” - P.D. James. "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” ― J.K. Rowling.

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