I was thinking about this post and how easy it is to become a prisoner of our thoughts. Many of us have had horrific things happen to us or have done them to ourselfe or others. The thing is that it's not that easy to just let go and move forward.
When we smash thru the illusion of thoughts and accept them as just thoughts offering love and forgiveness to all of them it doesn't mean that we are fine and dandy with all of those things that haunt us. Nothing could be further from the truth. When we break thru the veil of illusion and see whats really there we find that we were lost and caught up in delusional thinking. The same holds true for those that harmed us, they may have been even sicker than we were and even more caught up in the dream world of such thinking.
If you think about it, when you see thru a con artist and know he's selling you snake oil you can no longer be fooled by his seduction. Isn't our mind and thought process much like that?