While stopped at a traffic light yesterday, I saw an interesting bumper sticker. It read, "God bless everyone - no exceptions." Imagine the potential power in that thought.

it is a noble thought...one I find very hard to master....I cannot forgive any slight to my parents or daughter.........other things I forgive

'aye and shalini - i tried - but cannot forgive Hitler for what he did to my family.

I agree that God blesses everyone, but we are human and don't possess that power. I've learned to forgive and practice it in my daily life. If not, I would never speak to my family. But I think there is a big difference between forgiving and forgetting. How does one say "I forgive" and forget the pain and anger at the same time?

OMG! I just read your last entry Em. Were your parents holocaust victims?

Em,

That's what enlightenment, deliverance, and the spiritual journey are all about. We're not there yet. Our Path is an edifying effort to arrive at a higher level. Forgiveness is not so much what we do for someone else; it's about the freedom we give ourselves to grow and move forward rather than being stuck in an unwholesome mindset. Keep trying. You can succeed.

Em, must have been terrible for you and yr family...we have jewish friends in the UK and the states who suffered greatly at the concentration camps......I cannot understand how one human being can do those things to another

shalini - what's so often forgotten is that almost 6 mil. non-jews were killed, too. come from a very catholic family.
justexploring - we all were.
'aye - you are a wise person.

em, you're quite right.........it is very unfortunate that millions of innocent people died so unnecessarily.....jews and non- jews......watched an interesting programme on the history channel yesterday...had watched it earlier but they were airing it yesterday on the lebenborn( cd have the spelling wrong) whereby the nazis had specially bred children to carry on the superior aryan race. The swastika is an indo-aryan symbol from ages ago and for us hindus it is an auspicious symbol...its a pity that thanks to that psycho hitler it has become a reviled symbol.........we have a firly lrge christian population in India....protestants in the east, catholics in the south west and syrian christians in the extreme south...and india is the only country or one of the very few in anycase where there has never been any anti semitic attitude

shalini - India should be proud.

thank you!

Emily, I knew you were Catholic since you've posted the Hail Mary prayer. I also realize that many people other than Jews were victims of Hitler and the Nazi's senseless slaughter. Coming from a Jewish home, I was taught about the Death Camps like Auschwitz where hundreds of thousands who starved to death were Polish. I also know many people risked their own lives by hiding their Jewish friends and neighbors. I'll never understand hatred. There is so much anti-Semitism in the world and yet Jews are only a tiny percentage of the population, less than 3% of the entire United States. Yet I hear people all the time talking about how the Jews have all the money and run the country. I have blonde hair and green eyes, so sometimes people in their ignorance will talk in front of me about "that lousy Jew-bastard" without a second thought.

Although Hitler's primary goal was to rid the world of Jews, just the like the genocide in Rwanda, the Killing Fields in Cambodian and the mass murders in Bosnia, the Holocaust wasn't only a Jewish problem. They are all a human rights problem and stem from an Evil so deep and so strong, I can't begin to comprehend it.

Emily, I knew you were Catholic since you've posted the Hail Mary prayer. I also realize that many people other than Jews were victims of Hitler and the Nazi's senseless slaughter. Coming from a Jewish home, I was taught about the Death Camps like Auschwitz where hundreds of thousands who starved to death were Polish. I also know many people risked their own lives by hiding their Jewish friends and neighbors. I'll never understand hatred. There is so much anti-Semitism in the world and yet Jews are only a tiny percentage of the population, less than 3% of the entire United States. Yet I hear people all the time talking about how the Jews have all the money and run the country. I have blonde hair and green eyes, so sometimes people in their ignorance will talk in front of me about "that lousy Jew-bastard" without a second thought.

Although Hitler's primary goal was to rid the world of Jews, just the like the genocide in Rwanda, the Killing Fields in Cambodian and the mass murders in Bosnia, the Holocaust wasn't only a Jewish problem. They are all a human rights problem and stem from an Evil so deep and so strong, I can't begin to comprehend it.

I must have hit my mouse twice - sorry.

Em, have you read this bk called NIGHT......

justexploring - thanks for your comment. shalini - yes.