Have you seen this movie The Mauritanian? It’s based on a true story about a Guantanamo Bay detainee. At one point, he explains that in his native language, Arabic, the word for freedom is the same as the word for forgiveness.*
I was struck by this. Because day after day, year after year, these words echo in my mind, “forgive and set yourself free.”
I first heard them from Louise Hay, and as I began to do forgiveness work, I found that it was true!
Forgiveness does have an incredibly liberating quality. Quite the opposite effect of what we think we will experience.