"Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it."
- Maya Angelou
Self-forgiveness is often hard to find.
This bookmark is folded from a dictionary page. It is crowded with self- words, many of them harsh, heavy and morally loaded.
The absence of self-forgiveness feels telling. It shows how exhaustively we've named our inner punishments; how much less our inner kindness.
Nonviolence isn't only about not harming others. It's also about noticing how fluent I am in self-judgement, and how unfamiliar gentleness can feel.
Today I'm practicing something experimental: naming a mistake calmly, letting the discomfort be there, and adding self-forgiveness to the list - making space for a different story.
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