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What does it mean?
Forgiveness requires loving someone even when you remember their harm, not forgetting it.
In plain terms
True forgiveness means loving despite remembering the hurt.
What can you take from it?
Forgive without erasing the memory of wrong.

Where it applies

  • conflict resolution
  • personal relationships
  • healing

Putting it to work

  • practicing forgiveness
  • managing memories

Questions to consider

  • Can you love someone who hurt you without forgetting?
  • What does true forgiveness require of you?

Another view

Remembering harm can sometimes be necessary for safety.

More from Mahatma Gandhi

  1. To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.

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  2. Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

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  3. This manslaughter must be stopped. You are losing; if you persist, it will only result in greater bloodshed.

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