To get to creation, you gotta go beyond forgiveness.

I really like this article (below) by Wayne Dyer. It’s about forgiveness.
One of my favorite sentences in A Course in Miracles is “Forgiveness does make lovely, but it does not create.”

HA. Rock the house. You can be a lovely human being who is quick to forgive (and that’s nice), or you can be the Son of God who shares the power of God to heal all thing. You get to decide.

Think about that. Forgiveness DOES make lovely, but it does NOT create. I love that. It means if you want to get to the space of creation, you must go beyond forgiveness.

That’s a pretty radical idea because everyone thinks forgiveness is the highest point you can attain, but it’s not, it’s the lowest. Remember, A Course in Miracles “remains within the ego’s framework, where it is needed”

You must go beyond everything it teaches. A lot of people get stuck in the teachings, which will make you a splendid fine beautiful human being, but you’ll still be trapped in time and space … and this Course is designed to lead you OUT of time and space, out of the world, straight into the heart of God where there is only love. The time you take it is up to you.

This is the point where you take 100% total responsibility in realizing there is nothing outside of you, so there’s nothing to forgive. IT’S ALL GOD. IT’S ALL LOVE. So there is only celebration and rejoicing. What is there to forgive in the Presence of God?

Everything else is illusion – your own nightmare – and does not exist.

I think of forgiveness as the ceiling in time and space. It’s the highest point in the world, but it’s also the lowest point in creation. It’s as high as you can go as a human being in the world – but remember, the mind-training of A Course in Miracles is to LEAVE THE WORLD (beyond this world is a world I really want) and then you go STRAIGHT THROUGH THE CEILING and there is God, there is love, there is creation.

And in that space, there is nothing to forgive. Where is forgiveness if there is no past no future, and no story?

Why We Forgive

by Wayne Dyer

I was having dinner with my friend Ram Dass not long ago and talking about forgiveness, a subject I’m studying for my new book. He leaned over and said to me, “Wayne, I’ve never believed that it’s up to us to forgive anyone. That is not our role.” Let this profound statement sink in and think about how it might apply to your own experience. First, we have to face the notion that in order to consider forgiving someone we must have been blaming them for something. We must have anger, resentment, blame, even hatred going on in order to feel the need to forgive. Forgiveness is really an act of letting go, releasing the anger, the hatred, the bitterness, the thoughts of revenge that we have been carrying around. We can do this letting go without even encountering the person we want to forgive. It was one act of profound forgiveness toward my own father, whom I never saw or talked to, that turned my life around from one of ordinary awareness to one of higher consciousness, achievement, and success beyond anything I had ever dared to imagine.

We forgive by releasing all resentment, anger, and bitterness and thus set ourselves free from the negative feelings that weaken us. First we have to get past blame. Then we have to learn to send love to all. One of the great lessons of forgiveness is the report of Jesus’s words on the cross: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.” They really did not know the harm they were doing to themselves and to all of us. Meet hatred with love.

Taking all the anger and hatred that is standing in your way and replacing it with love is the most healing thing you can do. Fill your soul with love, rather than anger and so many things will change in your life. None of us needs revenge, but we all need love. It is all we really have to give away. I advised a recent caller to my radio show to contact the abusive father she hadn’t seen or spoken to in 30 years. Finding the courage to call the show was the signal to her that she needed to heal her painful past. Rather than saying, “I forgive you,” and opening old wounds, all she needs to do is say, “I’m here, I care about you, and I send you love.” She has the power to heal and set both of them free.