leave people better than you found them...

"Be the one who nurtures and builds. 

Be the one who has an understanding

and a forgiving heart,

one who looks for the best in people. 

Leave people better than you found them.

~Marvin J. Ashton

Rivers in the Ocean

i forgive myself...

Buddhist Prayer

If I have harmed anyone, in any way, either knowingly or unknowingly through my own confusions, I ask forgiveness.

If anyone has harmed me, in any way, either knowingly or unknowingly through their own confusions, I forgive them.

And if there is a situation I am not yet ready to forgive, I forgive myself for that

For all the ways that I harm myself, negate, doubt, belittle myself, judge or be unkind to myself through my own confusions, I forgive myself.

Rivers in the Ocean