One of the first thresholds on the path of liberation is the deepening of forgiveness.
It is a quiet expansion into the inner landscape of loving kindness — not as sentiment, but as practice. Forgiveness softens the road beneath our feet, making it walkable again.
It releases us from the hardened grip of resentments born from colliding desires — within relationships, yes, but also within the conflicted terrain of the self.
It is the great unwinding, the gentle resolution of opposites. As Stephen Levine wrote, it is the beginning of freedom.
Nigel Lott teaandzen.org
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