Forgiveness is the way of love that not only receives every attack without fighting back but, even more, it actively reaches out to the transgressor to identify with his or her lostness, guilt and condemnation, and to make this its [love] own.
J. Rodman Williams
The point is are you willing to identify with pain of the people who hurt you? In our compassion we must understand that most of the human race is unable to respond to pain in a constructive way so we hurt others because we don't know what else to do! However, if we experience our offenders pain, we begin to know them; and it is at this point where healing can begin.
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