to two specific stories in the book to see if the claim is true for all the short stories. The first story was written by Ahmed Essop and is titled ‘The Hajji’. It is a dense tale about forgiveness. In short‚ Hassen‚ a Muslim man‚ has just returned from a pilgrimage to Mecca where he has asked for forgiveness for all his shortcomings and past transgressions and has been cleansed of his sins and consecrated with the title Hajji. He is then informed by his estranged brother’s white lover that his
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past‚ hope and optimism for the future; and flow and happiness. At the individual level‚ it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation (like freud)‚ courage‚ interpersonal skill‚ aesthetic sensibility‚ perseverance‚ forgiveness‚ originality‚ future mindedness‚ spirituality‚ high talent and wisdom." - Csikszentmihalyi & Seligman "What is pos psych? it is nothing more than the scientific study of ordinary human strengths and virtues. Pos psych revisits ’the average person’
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The process of confession leads the individual to seek a form of freedom from the burden of pain which is known as forgiveness. To secular therapist forgiveness is counterproductive because it tends to promote a sense of a duty or obligation to forgive (McMinn‚ 1996). For Christian fundamentalist confession
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the overcoming of it”. (Helen Keller). Helen Keller is like Morrie schwartz because morrie suffers through his pain but he overcomes it by enjoying what he has left of life. Morrie teaches people to live life by the world‚ suffering and death and forgiveness. Morrie teaches that we can just talk than fight. He asks about the newspaper strike‚ and true to form he doesn’t understand why both sides did not simply communicate with each other and solve the problem. “Now that i’m suffering‚ i feel closer
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However‚ Dimmesdale is jealous that Hester is the one who people know about and he has to be in pain hiding this sin. Some people can harbor sin and wait until their death bed to ask for forgiveness‚ and others cannot imagine living another day with the sin and guilt eating away at their conscience. Hester took the high road‚ risked her reputation and accepted the painful road of being shamed‚ humiliated and shunned. But through her pain
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love ones‚ there is no perseverance and with no perseverance‚ happiness cannot exist. The message Jesus Christ was trying to convey is that God is patient and all forgiving of us but‚ it is up to us the sinners to realize that we truly need this forgiveness in our lives to move ahead in a positive manner that will reward us during our remainder on Earth and in Heaven to come. A parable is “a short story with the intent to teach a lesson to its audience (OED)”. I believe‚ though the tale is of Christianity
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Arthur Dimmesdale was struggling with his mistakes for a large part of the novel but was torn between revealing his sins to the public and living in secrecy with Hester. The guilt that was living inside him was too much for him and it was eating away at him so he decided to come clean. He decided to do so in one of his church sermons. The language he used had a certain rhythm that conveyed his release of guilt and shame that was bottled up inside. Hawthorne writes‚ “the language in which the preacher
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They‚ therefore‚ ask for cleansing and wait upon God to approve the request. They repent due to the nature of the irrevocable damage that their iniquities may have caused (Maston‚ 2010). It is important that people ask for forgiveness for all the iniquities they might have committed consciously‚ though stress or even through the abuse of power and the exploitation of their neighbors. The role played by free will in this bid to get back on the right track is very crucial. People
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satisfies me in my heart (I borrowed the words because they expressed my feeling best – I hope you don’t mind: ) “The human mind…”‚ “…is constantly judging others and identifying faults without relating them to itself.” A word that is key = forgiveness ("pardon‚ forgiveness‚ indulgence“). “GOD WILL FORGIVE ME‚ THAT’S WHAT HE DOES.” = FORGIVING KING (Gematria) = 888 FORGIVE A SINNER WE ARE FORGIVEN (Gematria) = 1888 & 888 Elizabeth coin facing Liberty. Liberty is ‘freedom from the bondage of sin’ = LAW OF
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the murder of her entire family. She hears the horrific screams of her family and remains calm asking a misfit to pray. She also shows a lot of forgiveness when her family was killed she didn’t show hatred she just told misfit to pray and continue telling him that he was a nice person and insisting that he had good morals. Grace is God showing forgiveness and love. The Grandmother keeps insisting that the Misfit is a good person and that he could never shoot a lady. She even mentions that he should
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