Is it no longer Blind?????

As listed in the love & forgiveness card...
"Any love dependent on someone else's behavior wasn't love in the first place"

To Discuss -
What conditions do people often put upon being able to love? These conditions usually come from family backgrounds religious traditions, or cultural norms.

To Do -
Make a personal list of the conditions you sometimes put upon your willingness to love. Which ones can you give up?

Duh??? And I was under the impression love is blind!!!!

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Sweetness of Friendship

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." 
                            - Kahlil Gibran in The Prophet 

Write or call a friend to let them know what you admire about them and what they mean to you. 

PS.
If I haven't written or spoken to you, please do not give unwanted interpretations & complicate things. But yes, I did think of you all while keying this here.

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Eliminate in Self

As read from a card....
"Often the most difficult part of forgiving another is facing the fact that we don't actually want to forgive them. Yet the process of forgiveness also requires that we experience, within ourselves, the fact that we are not so different from those we are so ready to judge." 
                               - Exra Bayda in Saying Yes to Life 

Bring to mind a person who has hurt or offended you. Ask yourself: What qualities does this person possess that I would like to eliminate in myself? 

Feeling stuck at "we don't want to forgive them"? Use Varada Mudra.

"Varada mudra is beneficial to feed the mind with the virtue of forgiveness, the generousness to forgive the world."

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