Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

Oblivion cures the old wounds.

And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

It is when judgment ceases that healing occurs.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive

Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.

Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone.

But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. ‘What good is it, Laila jo?’ And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariq’s, for her children’s. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.

What have I to forgive and whom?

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

We do not have to know how to forgive. All we have to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the how.