{"id":628,"date":"2008-10-01T22:25:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T02:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/10\/01\/the-opposite-of-resentment-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:48:05","slug":"the-opposite-of-resentment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"The Opposite of Resentment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The emotional opposite of resentment is forgiveness.\u00a0 However, forgiveness <em>does not mean condoning <\/em>or <em>overlooking <\/em>the offense.\u00a0 It does not mean <em>reconciling <\/em>with someone who has hurt you.\u00a0 Neither does it require that you forego legal procedures of justice.<\/p>\n<p>Forgiveness means letting go of the <strong>compulsion to punish,<\/strong> in the realization that we cannot harm others, particularly those we love or have loved, without harming the self.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steven Stosny, <em>Manual of the Core Value Workshop, <\/em>p. 74<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The emotional opposite of resentment is forgiveness.\u00a0 However, forgiveness does not mean condoning or overlooking the offense.\u00a0 It does not mean reconciling with someone who has hurt you.\u00a0 Neither does it require that you forego legal procedures of justice. Forgiveness means letting go of the compulsion to punish, in the realization that we cannot harm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10483,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}