What is the difference between transcending your anger and forgiving?

When we forgive, we do more than transcend our anger.  Forgiveness, as a moral virtue, centers on the person who did wrong to you.  You can transcend your anger, for example, by trying to forget about the whole situation, or even by trying to forget about the one who acted unfairly.  This is not forgiveness, which is a deliberate choice of being good to those who are not good to you.  You can transcend your anger without deliberately trying to be good to the other person.

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