The power of forgiveness

"Have I been a good mother ?" her mother asked her. The love and compassion that she felt for her mother was overwhelming. "You have been not only the best mother, you have been my only mother" she answered.

Just listening and being there for her mother, was helping her mother to help her self, give herself a chance to find her own truth, the richness, beauty, and depth, bigger than she never even had imagined.

"Whatever disagreements we have had are completely forgiven" she said to her mother. Her mother felt that she had made up with everyone that had touched her life. That was the biggest relief. There was no bitterness, only thankfulness.

"It is human to make mistakes, and divine to forgive"*

* From the book "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" by Sogyal Rinpoche