"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...

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...

People hurt each other too much.  We spread pain, agony, and misery.  We spread humiliation.  Mostly it is because we seek revenge. Revenge for we have been wronged. Learn to forgive.  Pick up the pieces.  Move on. Keep moving forward.  Keep going on. Accountability of the past brings no solace, no relief.  It only rekindles the pain, the negativity, and thus the hatred.  A renewal and reaffirmation...