While external circumstances may cause a temporary interruption of our
happiness, our reaction to the circumstances has far more control over
our happiness in the long run. We can’t control the actions of other
people. If we are honest in our assessment, we have to acknowledge that
people are often mean, rude, thoughtless, and self-absorbed.
Given that we have to live among these thoughtless and mean creatures,
it is a virtual certainty that we are going to be injured by their
actions at some point. (Just as certain that we, being of the same type
of self-absorbed creatures are going to injure others on occasion.) The
surest road to overcoming circumstance and moving back to our intended
state of happiness is through forgiveness.
In the chapters that follow, we will walk through some of the primary
obstacles to forgiveness, the major results of holding onto our grudges,
and the general process and many benefits of forgiveness.
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