Complete forgetfulness is forgiveness. If I do not forget then I have not forgiven.

Forgiveness is complete forgetfulness.

I must loose it and let it go, not by using words of denial but by believing him to be what he desires to be. In that way I completely forgive him.

“And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

You are told, “Forgive and you shall be forgiven. Forgive not and then you shall not be forgiven.”

The only art of living is complete forgetfulness by putting something in its place, no vacuum, but putting something in its place.

What we mean by forgiveness: the identification of the other that we would forgive with the ideal that other wants to embody in the world.

you will realise that freedom and forgiveness are indissolubly linked

You do not say to another: “I forgive you.” That means nothing. But you bring him before your mind’s eye and embrace him.

Some pious monk added the last part, which is now deleted from the newer, more accurate version of the Bible: “If you don’t forgive, then your Father will not forgive you.” That was not the original text.

This lady I told you of tonight “forgave” her friend, for she saw her happily married.

I must forgive him by seeing him looking well

Forgiveness in the mystical sense tests man’s ability to enter into and partake of the nature of the opposite.

We conquer only by the sword of forgiveness. Identify the other with the ideal that he has failed to realise, and to the degree that you do it you have truly forgiven him.

Distinguish man, who is all Imagination, from his present state. You can forgive him anything knowing he is playing a part written for him by God.

The being that was never any good at a certain time, you pull him out into another state, as though his sins then were as scarlet, now to you they are as white as snow.

We see the sign No Trespassing all over the place, and we step on the other fellow’s land; well, that’s the way we trespass: we step upon it.