“When we go beyond ideas of right and wrong, as Rumi says, we enter a “field.” That field is oneness. Its seeds of peace, renewal, and love find fertile ground in our souls. To forgive is to allow these seeds to grow. Unlikely Friends, a documentary film by acclaimed director leslie Neale, presents remarkable stories of radical forgiveness. To forgive in the midst of unbearable anguish seems to be an impossibility; yet, where there is forgiveness, as the stories told in Unlikely Friends demonstrate, both the victim/survivor of a crime and the perpetrator experience healing….”
