Responses to Buddha Quotes: Part I

I would like to work on faithfulness the most at the moment as I am already in excellent physical health. Faithfulness is harder for me to hold onto than contentment. Faithfulness is the thing I would love to be close to the most.
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
Buddha

Buddhist Prayer on Forgiveness

“If I have harmed anyone in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through my own confusions, I ask for their 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.”

I am still resentful of a lot of people. I would like to forgive myself for not being able to forgive.

Don’t beat yourself up for not being able to forgive. Not forgiving someone is a human action. It’s okay not to forgive, jut don’t let this take over your life. When this feeling comes, I tell myself to do something so it would fade. Whenever this feeling comes, just do something for it to fade.

“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you”.

Buddha

Letting go of things not meant for me is extremely difficult. Sometimes we really want something but it’s not meant for us; it just won’t happen no matter what. We have to accept this positively. I love this quote very much.

Don’t keep chasing something that you aren’t destined for; don’t keep holding onto it. Try other activities, seek other opportunities. Don’t hold onto something so tightly when it doesn’t want you, when it doesn’t value you. Please do yourself this favor.