https://bahaiteachings.org/my-path-to-forgiveness-and-emotional-healing/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:25:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://bahaiteachings.org/my-path-to-forgiveness-and-emotional-healing/#comment-71104 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:25:05 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52134#comment-71104 Great article. I was also teased by other kids in grammar school. They were very hurtful, and it made me feel pretty wretched. I could never understand why they said and did the things they did. I suppose it did send me on a spiritual path, however. I wanted a better world where children (and people) were kind to each other. I’ve forgotten most of the instances now at 80 years old. I do think all that may have made me open to the Bahá’í Faith, which I accepted at age 17 shortly after learning about it. So, was it bad what happened to me? Hard to say. Maybe not after all.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/my-path-to-forgiveness-and-emotional-healing/#comment-39482 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:51:13 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52134#comment-39482 What a powerful sharing of what true forgiveness is meant to do, as you state, “forgiveness ennobles and strengthens our souls, and helps us heal”. Love the quote you included from the Universal House of Justice to support your the thought you share, stating, “to nurse a grievance or hatred to another soul is spiritually poisonous to the soul who nurses it…” Thank you so much for this clarity of thought around a very difficult virtue to practice, but we must, not for the person who harmed us, but for our own wholeness and health.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/my-path-to-forgiveness-and-emotional-healing/#comment-39481 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 21:19:56 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52134#comment-39481 By the way. Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/my-path-to-forgiveness-and-emotional-healing/#comment-39480 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 21:13:08 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52134#comment-39480 We are all wounded healers. “The process of individuation,” of becoming whole, to quote C. G. Jung’s closest colleague Marie Louise von Franz, “generally begins with a wounding of the personality and the suffering that accompanies it. This initial shock amounts to a sort of ‘call,’ although it is not often recognized as such.” the event of our wounding sends us on a journey in search of our True Self, something greater and more powerful than the small little ego. Songwriter Leonard Cohen sings, “There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s where the light comes in.”

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/my-path-to-forgiveness-and-emotional-healing/#comment-39479 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 19:25:03 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52134#comment-39479 Radiance, thank you so much for an authentic, touching and meaningful article.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/my-path-to-forgiveness-and-emotional-healing/#comment-39478 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 17:04:37 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52134#comment-39478 What a well-written and insightful article . . . I too struggle to forgive, so I appreciate learning more ways to strive to forgive others.

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