This "Forgiveness Prayer" comes from the cross-cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien. It is a simple, beautiful Buddhist practice:

"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 I harm myself, negate, doubt, belittle myself, judge or am unkind to myself through my own confusions, I forgive myself."

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