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Bitter Past

Bitter Past

Forgive as soon as possible.   Holding grudges only burns your soul. You can never build a happy future unless you can forget the bitterness of the past....

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Ego and forgiveness

Ego and forgiveness

It is difficult to forgive when you are weak. You need to hold on to the anger to feed your pride and ego. Anger is not because I have been wronged, but because *I* have been wronged. How could you wrong *ME*? If we could get over the fact that we have been wronged, only then we will see that whatever has happened has happened. Anger will not undo it. Anger only feeds our ego.  Anger only soothes our ego.  Anger only satisfies...

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Heal yourself

Heal yourself

"To be angry is to let others' mistakes punish yourself. To forgive others is to be good to yourself." ~ Master Cheng Yen   Forgiveness is not just being close to God, but also a gift to ourselves. In the absence of forgiving we can never move on from the trauma caused to us or wrong done to us by others. What's done is done, and cant be undone, but keeping it alive only takes away valuable moments from our present...

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Anger and a bag of nails

Anger and a bag of nails

Anger, one of the most disliked emotions by all religions, prophets, and people of wisdom. A story which I discovered on a Buddhism website has made it so amazingly clear how anger is one of the worst poisons of our own souls. An emotion or a state that must be conquered by all those who wish to enable themselves. The classical thinking is that Anger harms yourself and disables you to progress, but as this story explains perfectly, anger...

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