From: Friendship with God

Have you not learned from your greatest hurts, sometimes even more than from your greatest pleasures? 

Who, then, is the villain, and who is the victim in your life?

The parable of The Little Soul and The Sun from The Conversations with God

"You may choose to experience any Aspect of Divinity in, as, and through you."

"Then I choose Forgiveness. I want to experience my Self as that Aspect of God called Complete Forgiveness" said the Little Soul.

Well, this created a little challenge, as you can imagine. 

There was no one to forgive. 

"No one to forgive? asked the Little Soul, somewhat incredulously.   

"No one," I repeated. "Look around you. Do you see any souls less perfect, less wonderful than you?" 

At this the Little Soul twirled around, and was surprised to see himself surrounded by all the souls in heaven. They had come from far and wide throughout the Kingdom, because they heard that the Little Soul was having an extraordinary conversation with God.

"I see none less perfect than I!" the Little Soul exclaimed. "'who, then, shall I have to forgive?"

Just then, another soul stepped forward from the crowd. "You may forgive me" said this Friendly Soul.

"For what?" the Little Soul asked. 

"I will come into your next physical lifetime and do something for you to forgive," replied the Friendly Soul

"But what? What could you, a being of such Perfect Light, do to make me want to forgive you?" the Little Soul wanted to know.

“Oh,” smiled the Friendly Soul, “I’m sure we can think of something.”

“But why would you want to do this?” The Little Soul could not figure out why a being of such perfection would want to slow down its vibration so much that it could actually do something “bad.”

“Simple,” the Friendly Soul explained, “I would do it because I love you. You want to experience your Self as Forgiving, don’t you? Besides, you’ve done the same for me.”

“I have?” asked the Little Soul.

“Of course. Don’t you remember? We’ve been All Of It, you and I. We've been the Up and the Down of it, and the Left and the Right of it. We've been the Here and the There of it, the Male and the Female of it, the Good and the Bad of it. We've all been the All of it. 
"And we've done it by agreement, so that each of us might experience ourselves as The Grandest Part of God. For we have understood that....
"In the absence of 'cold,' you cannot be 'warm.' In the absence of 'sad,' you cannot be 'happy,' without a thing called 'evil,' the experience you call 'good' cannot exist.
If you choose to be a thing, something or someone opposite to that has to show up somewhere in your universe to make that possible." 
The Friendly Soul then explained that those people are God's Special Angels, and these conditions God's Gifts. 
"I ask only one thing in return," the Friendly Soul declared.
"Anything! Anything," the Little Soul cried. He was excited now to know that he could experience every Divine Aspect of God. He understood, now, The Plan.
"In the moment that I strike you and smite you," said the Friendly Soul, "in the moment that I do the worst to you that you could ever imagine - in that selfsame moment . . . remember Who I Really Am."
"Oh, I won't forget!" promised the Little Soul. "I will see you in the perfection with which I hold you now, and I will remember Who You Are, always." 

Have you, My Little Soul, kept this promise to others?

No, I'm sad to say I have not.

Do not be sad. Be happy to notice what is true, and be joyous in your decision to live a new truth.

From: Natural Presence

 "Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other"
 - Dalai Lama

From: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

'Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue. And it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself'

FROM HOME WITH GOD

One way to achieve being centered is to look into your own eyes in a mirror. This is an incredibly powerful tool. The trick is to not turn away if this deep looking becomes uncomfortable. If you are able to hold your own gaze for more than a count of ten, you will begin to experience such compassion and love for yourself that you will almost not know what to do with that feeling.
It could be very difficult for you to take in this feeling if you are not used to loving yourself-and most people, sadly, are not. Just be with the feeling and embrace it.

Continue looking deeply and more deeply into your own eyes. If you use a hand mirror, you can be sitting when you do this. Now all at once, after looking deeply into your own eyes for as long as you can, simply and quickly close your eyes-and be with the feeling that follows. Very often you will feel merged with the Essence. This could last only a moment-or for the rest of the day.