Ric Elias

Not that I don't take responsibility, but the forgiveness happened to myself at the moment.

It's like I no longer had this notion.

And I think guilt drives a lot of our ego.

A lot of our comparisons said a lot of this notion of having to be right versus choosing to be happy.

And look, this is not a perfect journey.

And at times your ego gets caught up in this and your ego gets in the way.

Trust me, compared to when this happened, I am incredibly, incredibly lighter.

I don't want to die and I don't want the ego to be the one that shows up every day.

And as a result, the problem, what happens when you have tremendous forgiveness for yourself?

One, your conversation with yourself changes.

You become incredibly kind.

You become a lot more light.

But you then find forgiveness in everything.

I am super, super forgiving.

And to me, true forgiveness, and there's many definitions, is when you forgive when the other person doesn't apologize.

Because the forgiveness comes from love and comes from a language of accepting the humanity of all of us.

That was, to me, super liberating.

At the time, it was, come on, that's a regret.

All of this were regrets.

And maybe the last one, as this plane is about to crash, and when you fly, you can count down when we're gonna hit the water, and you're like, okay, please blow up kind of thing.