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==Mirror of Forgiveness==
==Mirror of Forgiveness==
From the inner state of forgiveness comes your ability to be understanding toward others. If you are self condemning, then you will see yourself mirrored in those around you. Their behaviors, which unconsciously remind you of your own, will arouse in you the greatest indignation and you will become very judgmental. Always remember that the finger points both ways. What you find offensive in another is likely to be what you have not understood and forgiven in yourselves. This is why that it is in the act of forgiving another that you experience self forgiveness. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2002-11-08-Self_Forgiveness#Lesson Daniel]
From the inner state of forgiveness comes your ability to be understanding toward others. If you are self condemning, then you will see yourself mirrored in those around you. Their behaviors, which unconsciously remind you of your own, will arouse in you the greatest indignation and you will become very judgmental. Always remember that the finger points both ways. What you find offensive in another is likely to be what you have not understood and forgiven in yourselves. This is why that it is in the act of forgiving another that you experience self forgiveness. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2002-11-08-Self_Forgiveness#Lesson Daniel]
==Power==
Earthly power is more or less delusional power. It is temporary and it is very unstable, but spiritual power is different. Spiritual power is gained as earthly power is renounced. Spiritual power is almost a self-negating or self-forgetting state which is the only way a human being can touch the real power of love. You cannot hold it, or possess it, but you can draw near to it as you surrender your earthly power to the Source of all power.
Human beings panic without their illusions of power, without the illusion of control. The thought of being a small grain of sand tossed by the sea is too frightening for most human beings and so humans go about pretending that their money or their control or their earthly influence will somehow protect them from the on rushing tide, but, in the end those illusions are shattered, and each one departs this life with nothing.
The most mighty pharaoh of ancient times departed this earth equally endowed as his most humble slave. The man with illusions of control loses his illusions. The one without illusions of control loses nothing. Who is richer? Spiritual power is invisible and all powerful. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2002-11-17-Power Ham]
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