The last year has been one of the most challenging in my life. Finally this test is over, and I look back with hopes that I managed to learn more about patience and forgiveness than ever before.

 

When someone hurt you it can be difficult to embrace him or her as a teacher. But enemies are teachers and lessons are blessings. When I was in a heart intensive care unit in January this year, I finally understood that hate, anger and vengance can kill. Not others but oneself. When I decided to forgive, I realised that it was possible to let go. A strange sense of joy and happiness filled my heart. I was free. I should have known that after seing so many patients. I didn't.

 

This experience is in itself the basic of all spiritual teaching, but also the sort of therapy I provide. I have seen many patients initially being unable to forgive. After painstaking work, a short sentence seem to liberate them all - I forgive - and suddenly healing can take place as the basis of all transformation.