Just as loving others begins with the ability to have love towards ourselves, so too does forgiveness begin self-forgiveness.
The fact that the Creator imbued each and every one of us with a spark of Divine Energy means that we are inherently worthy of that Energy.
All we have to do is extend that spark, that part of our vessel, further and further.
Last Sunday night, at our international Rosh Hashanah event in San Diego, CA, I shared a poem by Sri Chimnoy about this concept.
Here it is.
I hope you enjoy it, and wish you and yours many blessings for the year ahead.
If I Cannot Forgive Myself
If I cannot forgive myself
For all the blunders
That I have made
Over the years,
Then how can I proceed?
How can I ever
Dream perfection-dreams?
Move, I must, forward.
Fly, I must, upward.
Dive, I must, inward,
To be once more
What I truly am
And shall forever remain.
- Sri Chinmoy