honesty, forgiveness, a photo by davidg on Flickr.
from James Buchan, author of Frozen Desire
'... it is told of Nelson Mandela ... after much persecution, and when he was finally freed from prison ... he said to himself that he had to forgive all those who had wronged him by the time he reached the prison gates or he would never be free of them.'
from Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
'The past buries the past and must end in silence, but it can be a conscious silence that rests open-eyed. Perhaps this is the final forgiveness ...'
