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November 11, 2007 | Filed Under Inspiring, Rewritable words 

On forgiveness:

 The following is a tale from the Zohar concerning forgiveness:

Near the city of Lod, a man sat on a ledge protruding from a mountainside.
He was weary from the road, so he slept. While he was sleeping, a snake was
coming toward him. Then a lizard appeared and killed the snake. When the
man woke, he saw the dead snake. He stood up and at that moment the ledge
was torn from the mountain and fell to the valley below. He was saved. Had
he risen a moment later, he would have fallen and been killed.

A spiritual master sitting nearby observing all of this comes to him and says:
“What have you done that the Creator performed for you two miracles, saving
you from the snake and from the ledge that fell? Those events did not happen
without reason.”

The man said: “In all my days, I forgave and made peace with any man who
did evil by me. If I could not make peace with him, I did not sleep on my bed
before forgiving him and all those who grieved me. I did not harbor hatred all
that day for the harm anyone did me. Moreover, from that day on, I tried to
do kindness by them.”

Find time every night, before you go to sleep, to forgive people who have
wronged you during the day. It’s in your own best interest to let go of being
right. It just might save your life.

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