Reply #5: The Course in Miracles is almost wholly about forgiveness.

[Stevepol]

Reading it helped me one time in dealing with some issues of forgiveness and the point that helped me oddly was the idea that what we think happened never really happened. Only forgiveness can lead to reality, not the actions that seemed to call for forgiveness.

For some reason that helped me because I felt and still do that to truly forgive you would have to forget too, and I'm not sure it's possible to forget, short of some sort of partial or complete lobotomy. Forgiving is seen as part and parcel of an understanding and belief in the Reality of our spiritual selves and the unreality of our material existence, or rather our concept of our material existence, our ideas of sin and guilt and revenge and attack and so on.

The beginning of the Course suggests this approach:

Nothing Real can be threatened; nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

I have to admit that it's hard for me to read the Course material for very long because I space out, but I like a lot of the ideas in it and it has helped me a lot of times. It's a kind of manual for gnostic Christianity for the modern world.