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    A Choice to Forgive
    A Choice to Forgive
    A Choice to Forgive
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    A Choice to Forgive

    By Luiz Alberto Mortari

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    In a fictitious, ideal world where omnipotent beings behave with perfection, someone has the desire to experience forgiveness.



    Since there are neither offenses nor pride there, for it is perfect, such wish is not easily realizable. However, once the wish is expressed, the world looses its perfection, because in it there is an unsatisfied desire. That is, an impossibility even for omnipotent beings.



    In the book you will meet the solution which resettles their omnipotence and perfection, allowing all to experience forgiveness.



    Interesting visions of life are exposed, and although fictitious, they may be useful for us, here - to forgive, but moreover to exercise love to God, to our fellow men and to ourselves.



    Dont miss reading this book. Meditate about the possibilities presented, and observe your life transform itself to the best. As a reward, maybe besides understanding a facet of forgiveness, you will be able to realize that much of what we do, whether good or not, is just another way of increasing the love between us. Perhaps you will realize further, that there is only one of us and that we are all one, finally making into a whole, boundless divine family.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateDec 7, 2010
    ISBN9781456716639
    A Choice to Forgive
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    Luiz Alberto Mortari

    Luiz Alberto Mortari, fifty years old, is a doctor and a writer, married, with three daughters in university age. For as long as he can remember, he has been interested in existential matters and, between hits and mistakes, his life has been, in a certain way, dedicated to seeking for answers and to trying and live according to the comprehension achieved.   Regarding you, specifically, he wishes you what you wish to yourself – all the good, including that imperishable state of blissful and healthy happiness. The peace we all desire.   Having understood, at a certain point, that “one’s hands produce the longer lasting prayers”, this book is the result of one of them, made by and for all of us.

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      A Choice to Forgive - Luiz Alberto Mortari

      Chapter 1: Difficult

      Difficult? What do you mean, ‘difficult’?

      Di-ffi-cult!

      The word would have echoed in infinity and eternity if those things existed in the Absolute World. It would have reached the most remote galaxies, creating waves of surprise in the immense suns in which their orbits are connected. It would have surpassed even the exterior limits, far beyond the known universe, and successively reached and surpassed all the other universes. It would have projected itself in the past and in the future, and in all dimensions, transforming eternity in such a way that it would never be the same again. By merely being pronounced, the word difficult would have done all that, such is the surprised it would have caused.

      The world of the people who were talking is the Absolute World, which has no resemblance to ours. In the Absolute World, absolutely everything is here, and everything is now. So, in the exact moment that I register the word "difficult," there was no wave. We and our world, which is submersed in their world, do not even feel this wave, because it has never existed.

      Therefore, in that world of everything here and everything now, the surprise was more like a light that has been turned on in a dark room; it illuminates instantly even the most hidden corners. Instantly, as if it has always been there, as if it has always existed, just waiting for the sign that would free it—what is true in the Absolute World—the word difficult was heard in all the places, in all dimensions. With the same clarity, crystal and instantaneous, in the same moment it was pronounced.

      The people of that world discussed this, and questioned each other:

      ‘Difficult’? What means ‘difficult’?

      Is it what we do not obtain easily?

      Yes, but there is nothing absolutely difficult. If we did not have the power we have, we would have to work a little bit more to obtain what we wanted. Let’s imagine that there was a different world, where ‘to want’ is not synonym of power. Some things would be difficult to do, but only in the sense that things would be harder, because absolutely nothing would be impossible, especially in this world. So the level of difficulty would always be the same. But here in the Absolute World, it is unknown; we do not even know how difficult something is.

      Besides that, another one said, what did the Primordial Being call difficult?

      We do not know, some answer, it seems something that no one has ever tried to do.

      And who is trying to do something in a different way, instead of doing it in the traditional way, the eternal ‘so be it’?

      We do not know either. Should we go take a look? suggests another one.

      Well, it is possible that we never tried to do something in the difficult way, but everything that exists is in this Absolute World, because here and only here there is the truth fully expressed. So certainly, whatever it is, it is done here somewhere.

      I do not know, they say it is here, but at the same time it is not. It seems that only the means are here, but it is something that can only be tried outside the Absolute World. That is why no one here has it yet.

      Shush! someone asked for silence. Let’s pay attention; it seems that this subject will have a different ending from the ones we are used to.

      Chapter 2: The Absolute World

      Well, in order to understand what happened, and in order to have a glimpse of the surprise level when the word difficult was pronounced, we need to know the Absolute World and the Being who created it.

      The Absolute World is the world where everything exists—in it, even what does not exist, exists. There, absolutely everything is here and now. There is no distance, no time, no weight or power, doubts or nuances, nor hues or darkness. Nothing seems to be something, in the sense of looking like something. Everything is what it is. There are no creations or false happenings that show half-truths, depending on the conditions of lighting and colors, or of eyes, or of the interest of the person who looks.

      In the Absolute World, there is only the Full Truth, expressed continually in its totality. Therefore, yesterday, today, and tomorrow are all together. More or less like the lines of a song in a disc, they are all there at the same time.

      But the Absolute World is absolute because it is complete: all the movies, even those that were not made yet, have always been there. If you go there, you simply choose what you want to do and do it. You choose what you want to create, or take off from yourself, once everything that is outside is also inside of you, and then you make a perfect and finished projection. When you do not want it any longer, you pick it up and put it away—and the masterpiece still exists, because it will be immutable inside of you. In this world, you can do whatever you want and have whatever you desire, whenever you want. This is the Absolute World, where everything happens at the same time and not successively.

      The difference between our world and the Absolute World is that in our world, if we want to build something, or have a tree of a hundred years, we need to work and wait for the result that comes as time passes. Therefore, if you want a tree of a hundred years, you just need to choose it and have it. The same is true if it is a hundred or a thousand-year-old tree.

      Are you beginning to understand the surprise of those people who live there when the word difficult was pronounced? Nothing is difficult in that world, because everything reaches its maximum potentiality, its plenitude.

      The second condition to understand the Absolute World is also to understand the Being that created it. The Primordial Being, after creating Himself, created the world (Absolute) where all the following beings were located. And in this way, because He made bodies for the other beings, he made one, or many, for His own use. Here, He would be what some would prefer to call God, a Divine Being, a Creative or Supreme Energy, but the name does not matter, they are all His names, and they are all beautiful because we are talking about the Absolute Being.

      In this book, He will be the Primordial Being, but in the Absolute World, He, who created all the other beings from Himself, is known as Father.

      When this Primordial Being began to exist—since now or ever, whatever we prefer—when He created Himself, in His consciousness He knew that His major masterpiece would be to create other beings like Him, His sons and daughters. These sons and daughters would be, therefore, other primordial beings, with just one difference: they would be primordial in their names, powers, and capacities, because the Primordial Being gave them everything that was His, but these new beings would not be identical to Him. This is because they did not create themselves; they were created by Him. Well, even to this situation there would be a solution, because if something could not be done, then the Absolute World would not be absolute anymore. It would not be a world in which everything is possible.

      Now let’s observe something interesting: the sons of the Primordial Being are primordial beings, just like the son of a cat is cat, and son of a fish is fish. By this reasoning, then, if someone decides to call the Primordial Being of this story God, His sons and daughters would also be gods and goddesses.

      Well, as He started to create, His secondary primordial beings began to exist, not only in His imagination, but as individual and autonomous beings. They will be called created beings instead of primordial beings, in order to differentiate from the Primordial Being that created Himself. There exists, therefore, the Primordial Being, or Father, and the created beings, His sons and daughters.

      Because all the masterpieces from the Primordial Being are perfect, and because in the Absolute World everything simply is, these beings were created perfect, full of love, knowledge, wisdom, humility, and power, since their very beginning. Complete beings, all of them, could do absolutely everything that the Primordial Being could do—create universes and worlds, practically infinite, near and far away, in the macro and micro directions.

      They could project out of themselves other beings and different dimensions in these newly created worlds, and present themselves in these worlds in any way they wished; plant, human, animal or object, more or less like God does here in our world, where sometimes He presents Himself as a beggar, an invisible being, etc. Those beings could also manifest themselves in many other ways, in other places and determinate periods, in the past, future, or at the same time. They could act while isolated or in groups. Primordial beings; they are perfect, gifted with every power, glory, majesty, and magnificence given by the Primordial Being, by the Father Himself.

      Of course there was always a difference between them and the Father, because it was completely true that these beings were created by Him, and not by themselves. This is a condition that not even the Primordial Being could change. Well, even for that there is a solution, He said. But this is another little story of creation, and in this book it will only be mentioned. However, the subject will be approached with major details at a convenient moment, in another book, maybe.

      So there was no difference between the Father and sons, except the fact that they were created by Him. Here among us, for beings created by God, we can say that there will always

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