Forgiveness is vision free of the past.
A judgmental feeling about another person is based on the same belief as my fear of making mistakes: I think that what someone once did is more important than how that person is now. The work before me is to practice fully absorbing people as they are this instant. Taking them in as if for the first time. Obviously, I won't accomplish this if their past dominates my perception.
— Hugh Prather, Morning Notes