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Originally Posted by iDreamCatcher  Forgiveness is essentially feeling of love toward the person or situation that hurted you. Loving your enemy. Can we change our non loving feelings to love without any reason for it? |
I'd say forgiveness is a way to drop the heavy load of hate.
It is not loving your enemy, it is to understand your enemy is not your enemy, just a person who has lost his/her mind and did something horrible and stupid that he/she will regret in the distant future.
It is about understanding that what that person does is his/her problem, not yours and you understand that your life is yours, that you have control and that you do not need to worry anymore about that person.
It is more similar to detachment than to "loving your enemy".
You do not need to love your enemies when you understand that there is no real reason for enemies to exist.
An enemy should be so focused on you that he would not have a life.
But most of people have more important things to do than being your enemy.