Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not
occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was
no sin. And in this view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin except
a false idea about God’s Son? Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and
therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the
Will of God.

An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgement that it will not
raise to doubt, although it is not true. The mind is closed, and will
not be released. The thought protects projection, tightening its chains,
so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily
accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason. What can come between
a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its needed goal?

An unforgiving thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues
its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its
chosen path. Distortion is its purpose and the means by which it would
accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts to smash
reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a
contradiction to its point of view.

Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. It
offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearance that
it likes. It merely looks and waits and judges not. He who would not
forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive. But he
who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.

Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do through Him
Who is your Guide, your Savior and Defender, strong in hope, and certain
of your ultimate success. He has forgiven you already, for such is His
function, given Him by God. Now must you share His function, and forgive
whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the
Son of God.