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He said that forgiveness was not his to have, "and he needs to forgive his worst enemy – himself".
"He needs to forgive his sexual orientation for what he thinks it did to him".
Who needs to forgive and who needs to apologize is often a tossup.
Locked together in obligation and duty, assailed by guilt and love, the Lamberts thrash against the cycle of needs — to forgive, to explain, to solve the riddle of unacknowledged hurts buried under thick layers of half-repressed memory.
In an aria before the famous fight, in which the real-life Emile Griffith was taunted about his sexuality by his opponent, the operatic Emile muses: "What makes a man a man?" In the last act Emile asks for forgiveness during the visit with Benny's son, who tells the old man that he needs to forgive himself.
Also, when you do not accept or forgive yourself, "you" are still split from "yourself" — you do not feel "together". Both of these parts — the one that needs to forgive, and the one that needs to be forgiven — are at odds with each other.
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There was a line in the movie that resonated with me regarding forgiveness, " You only need to forgive once.
Surely he needs forgiveness as much as I need to forgive, whether he's aware of it or not.
"We teach forgiveness to our children because we need to forgive the others," she explains.
If you have trouble forgiving, just repeat to yourself over and over: "I need to forgive them/that person".
So we need to forgive others, and we need to ask for their forgiveness, if we have done them wrong.
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