“Forgiveness is one of the greatest gifts one can give to another. It is also one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves.
Many have used the analogy that holding anger or hostility against another you feel has wronged you is like drinking poison and hoping it kills the other person. It doesn’t work. It poisons you. It poisons your interactions with others. It poisons your outlook on the world. Ultimately, it makes you the prisoner in a jail where you hold the key yet won’t unlock the door.
The reality is that each of us in our lives has wronged others. We are frail, fragile beings who at various times in our lives have not lived up to our ideal and have injured or hurt another.”
Venture Inward, An Alphabet of the Heart, James R. Doty, M.D.