To forgive a person for the evil he did to you is the only means to wipe out the true influence of this particular evil on you. The ultimate goal of evil is to make us act evil, to respond it with same ferocity, to ignite hostility. However deciding to forgive, you do neutralize it, disarm it, weaken it, make it meaningless. A scar will remain indeed, but your essence, substance wouldn't be changed at all - you will still be yourself. Yes, you will be a scratched diamond, but will still be a sining diamond and not muddy structureless mass which you will become if you choose to give up your way and start fighting the evil. Even if you suffer substantial damage at a physical/material level and the consequences are permanent, by choosing to forgive you obliterate the bondage, the chain which binds the things in this state. And your physical world will start a slow movement to a new state of harmony and equilibrium. You are once again free to move towards your goal. On a new way, because you were shifted off the initial way. When you have an objective and you are not anchored, there always is a way to this goal. Short or long, straight or curved, for the one determined to reach his goal there always is a road. He is is the road himself.
The only way for the evil to harm me is if I respond it. I am the answer. I can choose if the evil will knock me down or not. Jesus said that when He talked about turning the other cheek.
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