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Old Mar 22, 2012, 07:29 AM
sittingatwatersedge sittingatwatersedge is offline
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Originally Posted by hankster View Post
Cast not your pearls before swine. That quote from the Bible used to run in my head all the time, until I stopped doing it.
oh, there are so many Biblical quotes to the contrary. "so shall your heavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not your brother from your heart".... "even as God has forgiven you, so do you forgive", etc. Lots and lots of them. So yes we should strive to forgive others, as far as in us lies.

I am not finding however any admonitions about forgiving oneself, and wonder how that has arisen in psychological thought.