A brief reflective talk about the nature and liberating power of forgiveness. The speaker argues forgiveness arises from self-knowledge, is paradoxically painful because it draws one close to the original wound, yet ultimately frees and restores one’s capacity for love and connection.
Forgiveness is a kind of enigma. But then forgiveness seems like a complete anomaly. Talk to me about forgiveness. Forgiveness comes through self knowledge. The ability to understand your own difficulties and flaws always allows you to understand someone else's difficulties. Forgiveness is a heartache and difficult to achieve because strangely, it not only refuses to eliminate the original wound, but actually draws us close, closer to its source. The remarkable thing about a real act of forgiveness is how freeing it is. Actually, you realized part of you had already dropped to its knees to sing, to pray, to fall in love with everything and everyone again, and that someone from deep inside you had come out into the sea light to raise its hands and forgive everyone. In your short life, you thought you hadn't.
How to Raise Strong, Unshakable Boys in Today's Culture, with Dr. Shefali Tsabary
