The Path to God

I wear a ring with a Buddhist prayer engraved on it: “If I have harmed anyone in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through my own confusion, I ask for their forgiveness. If anyone has harmed me in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through their own confusion, I forgive them. And if there is a situation I am not yet ready to forgive, I forgive myself for that. For all the ways that I harm myself, negate, doubt, belittle myself, judge or be unkind to myself through my own confusion, I forgive myself.” The ring is not huge; the print is very small and wraps around, and I can only read it if the light is just right…