This Month’s Virtue: Forgiveness
Virtues Spotlight:
Q&A on Forgiveness with Dr. Fred Luskin
Forgiveness pioneer Dr. Fred Luskin, director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project of Palo Alto, CA, has successfully explored forgiveness therapy with people who suffered from the violence in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone as well as the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11. His research has shown that forgiveness reduces anger, hurt, depression, and stress and leads to greater feelings of optimism, hope, compassion and self-confidence. Read the full article →
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Other Features:
Be Inspired:
Forgiving My Father
I grew up with a verbally and physically abusive father. He was like two different people. He was the strong loving protector, but he also had a dark evil side. [...]
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Serve & Be Great:
A Father Forgives His Son’s Killer
On January 21, 1995, Tariq Khamisa, age 20, while delivering pizza in San Diego, CA, was shot and killed by a 14-year-old gang member, Tony Hicks. Tony had taken this order to shoot Tariq from an 18-year-old gang member. [...]
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Practice Forgiveness:
Heal the World
Forgiveness is to release the need to be right, even if we know we are and to focus, not on our anger, but on what’s possible for ourselves and others if we make amends. When we forgive, no matter how difficult, we experience freedom from our pain and sorrow and become people who are more love-based rather than fear-based, creating a better world. Ask to be forgiven, forgive others, and forgive yourself because peace cannot exist without forgiveness. [...]
