Open-Mindedness??

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Permalink Reply by melody on November 1, 2010 at 8:34am

The Hand of Enlightenment

As you change behavior, you change the emotion. As you change the emotion, you change the thinking.. As you change
thinking, you're getting wisdom. As you gain wisdom, you go into forgiveness.

you forgive yourself for your own stupidity and ignorance and lack of knowledge, and you forgive everybody else in the same instant. And at that moment, your' moving into enlightenment.

not only do you say, "I forgive you," but you also forgive as a process of being-ness.

Your attitude is one where you would reach down into the muck and mire of where someone is and gently lift them out and cleanse them from what they had on them, as bad and terrible as it may be.

"excerpted from From Forgiveness: The Key to the Kingdom."
Beloved John-Roger.

*love what your doing* :)

Permalink Reply by G.P. on November 1, 2010 at 1:55pm

For another beautiful share Melody!
Looking forward to many more.

Permalink Reply by Sayyed Babar Ali on November 2, 2010 at 1:04am

I agree with everything posted so far here. Melody has put forgiveness in a very nice perspective.

Acceptance smooths the distortions that judgement engenders. As imbalances/biases of personality are created by our judgements these act like extra burdens we are carrying in our journey through life. And each little thing that we don't forgive ourselves or someone else for tends to pull us down like gravity and slows down our evolution. Forgiveness is like a brake that stops the loop of the bias and frees us from the burden.

Open-mindedness is vital to any progress to be made individually or for society as a whole. It is the dreamers who dream big dreams first that are then upheld by the brave in the face of pressure from the society to conform to the status quo. Open-minded people aren't afraid to be different and forge their way through darkness carrying the torch of hope for the future ahead of the rest.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead, US anthropologist (1901-78)

Permalink Reply by G.P. on November 2, 2010 at 1:13am