Revenge is ugly. I don't have it in me to be vengeful. It takes too much energy and contaminates all who engage in it.

:rrose:

~When we take revenge against another, we lose some of our innocence.~

PATRICE REDD VECCHIONE, Revenge and Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the best "revenge".

Revenge is not the way to go.

"We should not seek revenge on those who have committed crimes against us, or reply to their crimes with other crimes. We should reflect that by the law of karma, they are in danger of lowly and miserable lives to come, and that our duty to them, as to every being, is to help them to rise to Nirvana, rather than let them sink to lower levels of rebirth." HH The Dalai Lama

His Holiness is a pretty smart guy.

revengefull ppl r very ugly on the inside, wish them well...they need healing.

Revenge, for me, does not reap what I want for my own life. By seeking revenge I am seeking to harm someone else for retribution to what they have done to me. Does that make me a better person? No. It actually lowers me to their standards of acting. So for me revenge is not a tactic I choose to allow in my life today. Sooner or later they will get theirs because karma always come back to smack someone in the face. We reap what we sow.

i rarely hold a grudge. i just let things go, but there are what seem like smaller things that have happened that i have had a hard time letting go. i think when people are unnecessarily cruel, i have a harder time.

If someone is doing the best they can and it affects me, well that sucks, but it's life. i can still even care about them, if from a distance.

But stupid cruelty just haunts me sometimes. i don't get it. ANyway, i would never seek revenge, but if a piano just happened to fall on their head . . . .

This thread came to my mind again lately bc of Trayvon Martin's mother. I have seen her interviewed many times. It always amazes me that she seems to carry no vengeance in her heart, and that she seems to show compassion, or at least tremendous character and restraint, toward GZ.

I'm just so awed by her.