Forgiveness of Self

This is very interesting. When you forgive someone, the idea is that you release yourself (and them too) from the hurt that has emerged between you. When forgiving yourself, what takes place? Who are the two parties who are in disarray or disagreement? Yourself and yourself. Hence, one part of you has to consider the criteria upon which it judges the other part of you to have done wrong. Kind of like rowing off the shore of oneself and then looking back at the island called yourself. Anyway, one of the things that can happen is that in examining the criteria by which one judges oneself to have done wrong, one can discover that the criteria itself might be wrong, or that what one has done is actually not relevant to the criteria one is holding to. The upshot of this is, one can often discover that what one is holding on to as criteria or an ethic is actually wrong or outmoded. In any case, it needs to be jettisoned in favour of something newer, fresher, real and more in touch.