Comments on: Forgiveness http://johntmarohn.com/blog/personal-growth/forgiveness/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:33:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: CleverTitania http://johntmarohn.com/blog/personal-growth/forgiveness/comment-page-1/#comment-960 CleverTitania Fri, 28 May 2010 01:58:46 +0000 http://johntmarohn.com/blog/?p=223#comment-960 I really don't think of forgiveness anymore, at least not on a scale above close friends or family. For me it's just about understanding. If I can understand why someone did something awful, and see they're reasoning no matter how faulty, it makes it easier to understand the world I live in. I don't concern myself with forgiving the 9/11 hijackers so much as understanding what motivated them and what factors led to their act. This makes it easier to understand how 9/11 happened and what needs to change to prevent it from recurring. I consider myself fortunate that I can make this distinction between forgiveness and understanding, because the knee jerk reactionaries (ones who stay in that mindset, we all are prone to it) can only seem to focus on the impossibility of forgiveness. Which means they not only suffer through ongoing historical events, they fail to learn from them. I really don’t think of forgiveness anymore, at least not on a scale above close friends or family. For me it’s just about understanding. If I can understand why someone did something awful, and see they’re reasoning no matter how faulty, it makes it easier to understand the world I live in.

I don’t concern myself with forgiving the 9/11 hijackers so much as understanding what motivated them and what factors led to their act. This makes it easier to understand how 9/11 happened and what needs to change to prevent it from recurring. I consider myself fortunate that I can make this distinction between forgiveness and understanding, because the knee jerk reactionaries (ones who stay in that mindset, we all are prone to it) can only seem to focus on the impossibility of forgiveness. Which means they not only suffer through ongoing historical events, they fail to learn from them.

]]> By: Willa http://johntmarohn.com/blog/personal-growth/forgiveness/comment-page-1/#comment-691 Willa Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:00:34 +0000 http://johntmarohn.com/blog/?p=223#comment-691 Good work. It seems so strange to call the capture of thoughts good work. Especially since "work" is so soaked with sweat and strain....... and conversly the aerial act of building something with words, imbued with and echoing stories seems like such a sweet thing. I had told myself that my comment would be short and sweet. So much for my self control. That said. Good work. Good work.
It seems so strange to call the capture of thoughts good work.
Especially since “work” is so soaked with sweat and strain……. and conversly the aerial act of building something with words, imbued with and echoing stories seems like such a sweet thing.
I had told myself that my comment would be short and sweet. So much for my self control.
That said.
Good work.

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