Sorry for one or two more questions about self-forgiveness. I am trying to understand it. Why not just encourage people to engage in self-acceptance. Why go so far as using the words “self-forgiveness” to describe what actually is self-acceptance?

Self-acceptance and loving the self again are different.  Self-acceptance has a certain ring of tolerance or putting up with the self despite the moral infraction done by the self.  Loving the self is to go much more deeply than that.  To love the self again is to place oneself on the same level of humanity as all others, to see one’s worth as a person, to be gentle with oneself despite imperfections.  This is much more than simply tolerating the self.

For additional information, see Self-Forgiveness.

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