Until you surrender the need to know
why things happened to you as they did,
you will hold on to your wounds with intense emotional fire.
Your mind will want to heal,
but your pride, anger and emotions
will remain caught up in wanting to make sure that the people who hurt you
fell bad about what they've done.
Or you may want to hurt them back.
But rest assured, your emotional self will remain attached to the unfinished business
rooted in feelings of abandonment andhumiliation,
of having lost something or been cheated.
Your mind may do what's required for healingand go through all the prescribed steps,
but your heart will never fully participate in the healing process.
In the end, forgiveness is an act of release,
surrendering the need for an explanation.
From that prospective,
forgiveness has nothing to do with the individuals who harmed you.
It is the act of accepting that there is a greater map of life,
through which flow many rivers of events and relationships,
all interconnected.
Forgiveness is your release form the hell
of wanting to know what cannot be known
and from wanting to see others suffer
because they have hurt you.
—Caroline Myss
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