forgiveness

Everyone deserves to be forgiven.

What characterises the human race more, Karla once asked me, cruelty, or the capacity to feel shame for it? I thought the question acutely clever then, when I first heard it, but I'm lonelier and wiser now, and I know it isn't cruelty or shame that characterises the human race. It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions.

Shantaram

One of my last MORNING GLORY blooms...the vines are dead. I found it curious that the bloom was so beautiful when the vine was dead.

Mysterious Skies

The sky was so beautiful this evening...even though I really would like for the rain to go away and come back another week. We are floating around here.:(

Sometimes we see the past so clearly, and read the legend of its parts with such acuity, that every stitch of time reveals its purpose, and the kind of message enfolded in it. ~Shantaram

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Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. ~Shantaram

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"Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are." ~Shantaram