Must one feel or experience a sentiment of guilt about their resentment to truly forgive?
Not necessarily. Anger within a temperate range (not so long and not so deeply intense) after injustice is normal. One may experience true guilt if one has reacted in an unjust manner toward the other person or has harbored feeling of revenge, for example.
If one is harboring this sense of revenge, as an example, or if one has lashed out verbally and with intense anger to the other person, then yes, feelings of guilt are normal and forgiving the self and, if this is a religious person, asking forgiveness from God are important.
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