C3, S5, P6: Line 3 is a difficult passage for me. One way I read it is, “The only meaningful prayer is that I be forgiven, because those who have been forgiven have everything.” The other way I can read it is, “The only meaningful prayer is that I be forgiving, because those who are forgiving have everything.” I think the course intends it the first way because of sentence 4. It begs the question forgiven by whom? I recognize that the way I may realize I already have been forgiven is by being forgiving to others. Thinking of perception and the idea of more or less I remember the movie, The Wizard of Oz. The wizard shows us how our imposter would show who we are to the world as big, powerful or terrifying. Yet the wizard in reality is nothing like that.
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