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Law Practice

Jun. 30, 2011

Pay It Forward: Transgression and Atonement

Life simply gets better when you learn how to make amends.

Timothy A. Tosta

Arent Fox LLP

Email: tim.tosta@arentfox.com

A transgression is your inappropriate response to an interference with your plans or expectations that negatively impacts another. Transgressions can "rent too much space in your mind." You may harbor the belief that you ultimately will "pay" for your transgressions, but you continue to do nothing about them. This continued failure to "make amends" is an unconscious burden that impairs your ability to fully engage in the present.

Your transgressions become part of your narrative, ...

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