If you have decided to forgive your enemy, your persecutor, your nemesis, then in the act of that decision it is done. The hatred may arise again later, once the decision has been made and the injury forgotten, but it is only a ghost, a chimera. It is the kind of trick our minds play to justify our negative emotions, nothing more. You have forgiven once you have decided to forgive. There is no going back. Love may be hidden, as the sun is blocked by a cloud, but once you know it is there, it never ceases to shine.
Nick Hilton - Reflections 