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Some Mantras

Forgiveness is the one supreme peace

If among monks or nuns occurs a quarrel or dispute or dissension, the young monk should ask forgiveness of the superior, and the superior of the young monk. They should forgive and ask forgiveness, appease and be appeased, and converse without restraints.

Kalpasutra 8.59

The weak can never forgive; Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

M.K. Gandhi

As long as we don’t forgive people who hurt us, they occupy a rent free space in our mind. So forgive and forget.

Brahmakumaris

I can forgive, but I cannot forget – is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Henry W. Beecher

Self examination

By self do you censure yourself? By self do you examine yourself? Self guarded and mindful, O bhikkhu you will live happily. Self indeed, is the protector of self. Self indeed, is one’s refuge. Control your own self as a merchant controls a noble steed.

Dhammapada 379-80

Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisativa path. Apply the remedies to keep a steady mind.

Shantideva

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you – unless, of course, you fail the test?

Bible 13.5

Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self-importance, or negatively, whether you have failed to realize that you are nothing

Saint Theophan the Recluse