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Later on, during a long break in my Yoga lesson, the teacher played a song that had never been played during the class. Hearing the first Guitar sounds of the prelude was enough to know that was it, the song that made you feel blessed all over and you could make peace with everything in the world - Magnificence by Daphne Tse. You lay down, with irrepressible tears flowing down.

In tears, you asked yourself once again: “have you forgotten it? The forgiveness you promised? Have you really recovered? Finally, before the music stopped, a weeping voice came from deep within: “he did nothing wrong, what could I forgive?”

You know that the one who needs forgiveness is actually yourself, who have been fighting against ghosts. The devil inside you makes you believe he did something wrong to you, but in fact all the resentment came from yourself.

You made a call to him, which was very brief. You could tell from it that there was nothing left - no love, no attachment, no hatred, and no resentment. You only took them as “all”, a part of the whole universe. Next time you sing “peace to all, joy to all, love to all”, you sing it for everyone, including him.

Excerpt from “Ubud, singing and forgiveness” in Here and Now by Marula Liu.