Forgiving a person does not mean forgetting. You can forget because of forgetfulness, because of carelessness, or your memory can be lost because of an accident - this is not forgiveness. Forgiveness, you know, is to accept the person as he is, with his past and present shortcomings; And you will say: Yes, he is like that, but I am his friend, I am his friend - we bear this yoke together. The apostle Paul says: Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfilled the teachings of Messiah. A Russian proverb says: Where two people love each other, there is double the joy and half the sorrow. This is how you should accept and forgive. You know that a man has come to you, but for friendship and love, to tell yourself: I will not remember the past and will not put it in line, and no matter what happens in the future, I will be wiser than I was: I will not fight, I will bear his burden, as he should bear mine. "Metropolitan Anthony Soroz".