“If forgiveness comes through understanding, and if understanding is just a matter of time and application then we might as well begin forgiving right at the beginning of any drama rather than put ourselves through the full cycle of festering, incapacitation, reluctant healing and eventual blessing.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“Shedding:
She asked "How can you keep shedding your past?
Your failures, your losses, and people you once loved?"
And I replied:
"Because there are some things you just cannot keep.
They have provided you with the lesson, and you have taken the growth,
So what is left to hold onto?
Keep shedding sweetheart.
Keep finding new and wonderful strengths that you never imagined you owned,
Climbing mountains you never thought you'd climb,
And mending your wounded heart for yet another time
Life is all about shedding.
So don't keep hurting the softness of your soul.
Life's most profound gifts are held in the hands of those who can learn so graciously to let go".”
Source: The Stars In Our Scars: A Collection of Unique, Healing and Inspirational Poetry
“Them:
Angel,
It was never about you.
It was always about them.
Their fears, their insecurities,
Doubts and misdeeds,
Their desire to be right
Their lack of feeling to move toward some light.
So don't pound your heart any further.
Don't wrestle with the past.
It was never about you.”
Source: The Stars In Our Scars: A Collection of Unique, Healing and Inspirational Poetry
“To keep holding onto something
that is long gone -
is like existing
inside a void of emptiness
that could have been
an entire universe by now.”
“She had one of those goofy smiles that made you wonder if she was too stupid to know that life sucks most of the time.”
Source: Hit List
“I mean, you see a million terrible things every day, on the news and in the paper, and in real life. I'm not saying that it's stupid to feel sad, just that it would be impossible to let everything get to you and still get some sleep at night.”
Source: Hold Still
“Healing from pain is a choice. You have to consciously decide that you deserve to feel free, that you deserve to let go of the weight that has been holding you down for too long.”
Source: Care Package: A Path To Deep Healing
“Learn from your past and be better beacause of your past," she would say, "but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don't hold on to it. Don't be bitter.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“What job have I hired this grudge to do?”
Source: Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
“Can we always really look forward, as everyone endlessly advises us to do? Or do we have to hold on to certain key vestiges of our past- as painful, as terrible as they might be- as a way of understanding that there are certain things in life that change us so radically that they stay with us forever? Can we really close the door on that which still haunts us?”
Source: The Moment