The Forgiveness Option

Instincts don’t require you to make decisions. There is no weighing of consequences, no
interests to consult, no regrets, and no mistakes. You don’t have to stop and scratch or figure
anything out. There is no karmic consequence. You just react: stimulus and response,
fight or flee, eat or be eaten, survive or pass away. You may find this sort of instinctive existence
attractive —at least until it comes your turn to be eaten.
In contrast, intelligent creatures have to make decisions and live with the consequence of
those decisions. Intelligence means controlling emotions, or discovering the best option, or
making choices based on potential consequences.
Making decisions is the essence of personal responsibility; it can feel like freedom or
weigh you down with guilt, sadness, or anger. One of the toughest decisions that an intelligent
creature ever has to make is the decision to forgive.
This fifth in a series of Avatar mini-courses explores the consequences and the process of
forgiveness.
The mini-courses are available as a free download from AvatarEPC.com or from your
local Avatar Master.
Download it right now by clicking on this link!
The world didn’t start yesterday,
and it won’t end tomorrow.
It moves inexorably forward;
not a single day can be
lived over. Mostly we drift
with the flow of ill-conceived
destinies—a mixture of
demands from the past, expectations
from others, and the
weary inertia of our own
fatigue. Many of the events
that we encounter can neither
be changed nor avoided; they
have multiple causes that
branch backward in time. What
appear as free-will choices may
only be the culmination of our
indoctrination and preceding
causes. On rare occasions, life
offers us the opportunity to
rise above the chains of causes
and effects, and for a moment,
as an Avatar source being, to
determine the direction of future
events. Forgiveness is such an
opportunity.