Forgiveness

Neville Goddard defined forgiveness as an inward change in how a person is seen. Because he regarded people and behavior as expressions of states, he taught that an unwanted act does not have to remain the final identity assigned to anyone.

Forgiveness may involve revising an incident, abandoning condemnation, or imagining another person in a better state. Neville also connected it with repentance, which he understood as a change of mind. Revision can support forgiveness by changing a remembered event, but the release comes from no longer holding someone to the former identity.