Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

Summary:
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Traditional
Forgiveness
is firmly rooted in the World
of Humanity. In the same way that the World of Hu-
manity holds the energy of duality, so traditional for-
giveness polarizes and judges everything as either
good or bad, right or wrong. 
 
Radical Forgiveness
takes the view that there is no
 
right/wrong or
good/bad. Only our thinking makes it so.
• 
Traditional
Forgiveness
always begins with the as-
sumption that something wrong took place and some-
one “did something” to someone else. The victim ar-
chetype remains operative.
Radical Forgiveness
begins with the belief that nothing wrong hap-
pened, and there are no victims in any situation.
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Traditional
Forgiveness
is effective to the extent
that it calls upon the highest human virtues, such as
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compassion, tolerance, kindness, mercy, and humil-
ity. These qualities point towards forgiveness and
have healing potential. However, in and of themselves,
they are not forgiveness. 
Radical Forgiveness is no
different in this regard since it also calls for these
same virtues to be present in the process.
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Traditional
Forgiveness
depends entirely upon our
own capacity to feel compassion, so it is limited in
this regard. No matter how much compassion or tol-
erance we muster for someone like Hitler, and no mat-
ter how much we empathize with the pain of his up-
bringing, nothing enables us to forgive him (using tra-
ditional forgiveness) for the mass murder of six mil-
lion Jews.