Forgiveness is a vital and necessary part of the spiritual path and for stepping into your power as a conscious creator of your reality.
But not exactly how we might think.
To quote Neal Donald Walsh,
In the mind of the master,
Forgiveness is unnecessary.
Instead,
Understanding replaces forgiveness.
Hey there friend,
Thanks for hitting play today and for sharing a part of your journey with me.
My name is Anthony V.
Lombardo and welcome to this edition of the You Are a Conscious Creator podcast,
Where I hope I can provide you with some inspiration and wisdom to help you consciously create a life of meaning,
Purpose,
And one that you absolutely love.
And maybe give you something to think about as you go along your path.
So let's go back to that quote from Neal Donald Walsh,
In his famous Conversations with God book series.
In the mind of the master,
Forgiveness is unnecessary.
Instead,
Understanding replaces forgiveness.
On face value,
This could seem as a mere message on the virtue of forgiveness.
But there is deeper wisdom here.
Let's lean into the words,
In the mind of the master,
From the quote.
To put this in perspective,
Would you need to forgive a two-year-old child for saying or doing something that we may deem wrong or bad,
Or for acting out or misbehaving?
No,
Of course not.
We simply understand how and why a child would behave that way.
In other words,
What this quote is reminding us is that we humans are essentially babies when it comes to our level of consciousness.
Yes,
We consider ourselves and others to be highly evolved and woke.
But more often than not,
We are left disappointed or angry when others behave in ways we don't like or agree with.
The other day I was thinking that we as human beings spend a good portion of our lives navigating conflict.
Whether it's a conflict with others,
Family members,
Friends,
Co-workers,
Strangers on the internet,
Stuff we see on the news,
Or even conflict with ourselves.
Then we spend even more time hoping,
Praying,
And trying to resolve that conflict.
So how do we go about doing that?
In many cases,
We simply wait.
We wait for the problem to get resolved magically on its own,
Like some act from the divine.
We wait for solutions and answers to just come to us.
We wait for the other person that we are in conflict with to initiate a resolution and to ease the tension between us.
Sometimes without realizing,
If you really think about it,
We live on a hamster wheel of opposition and conflict.
We get into a conflict and then we resolve it.
And then sooner or later we find ourselves back in conflict,
Trying to resolve it.
But if we are able to apply understanding,
Full,
Unbiased,
Non-judgmental understanding towards our own feelings and behaviors and that of others,
Resolving conflict and making amends is,
Like Neil said,
Really no longer necessary.
Forgiveness itself becomes obsolete.
Fixing things or quote-unquote fixing things between you and someone else won't even make sense because real understanding leads to compassion,
Which is a higher order of thinking.
Which means you essentially elevated your level of consciousness.
When I look back on my own struggles with others,
Where they might have did something that bothered me and I initially reacted harshly,
But then after some time when I really tried to understand where they were coming from and their point of view and how what they were feeling and experiencing could have caused them to behave the way they did,
My need for them to fix things with me or apologize or any struggle I was having to muster up the ability to forgive them almost instantly vanishes.
It's like my perception then shifts and I start seeing things more with my heart instead of through the narrow focus of my ego from what my mind is telling me about the situation.
So yes,
While this lesson from Neil Donald Walsh's quote is about forgiveness,
It's really more about consciousness.
And while cultivating forgiveness is a very important skill for us to develop,
We must not lose sight the underlying purpose of forgiveness and how it is asking us to evolve.
Remember the words master and understanding in Neil's quote.
In the mind of the master,
Forgiveness is unnecessary.
Instead understanding replaces forgiveness.
It really is a powerful shift in how we look at forgiveness and conflict with others.
Because this is essentially what we are trying to do over and over and over again throughout our lives.
We are seeking to keep waking up and become a master of the life we have been given right here in every moment now.
To be a master is really about seeing things clearly.
To experience life with eyes wide open.
To keep exploring it with curiosity.
To broaden our perceptions and to keep leaning in with interest to the perception of others.
Spiritual growth in many ways is really just a journey for us to keep evolving our level of understanding.
To keep elevating our consciousness with great determination.
And this determination,
This striving to expand our capacity to understand,
Is the function by which we take who and what we are and how we experience this life to higher and higher levels.
And this is exactly what it means to be a conscious creator of your reality.
I hope this can help you along your path.
Have a wonderful,
Beautiful,
And highly conscious day.
Much love.
