I'm sorry to both of my children for the immaturity I showed during the very painful divorce from your father. I might've been less self absorbed if I didn't feel so out of control at that time. I'm sorry if I hurt you or disappointed you, which I know I probably did. I know that the divorce was so painful for you both and certainly changed your lives in difficult ways. I love you so much and always will. I wish you beautiful lives with honest and supportive relationships. Love,Mama

I apologize to my wife for selectively loving her, rather than embracing the entirety of who she is, gentleness and passion, acceptance and anger, stillness and rushing, mother and wife, fearful and purposeful. She is fundamentally already the perfect person she wishes to be. Let me be a true partner in her life rather than a spectator/advisor/critic.

I am sorry for any way that I have hurt you by ending our friendship. I wish you healing and that we both walk away whole. I am sorry for what ever I have done that has caused you pain.

I am deeply remorseful and sorry for the pain and cruelty I inflicted upon my former husband and on my daughter during a time when I was blindly self-absorbed in my pressing desires for personal happiness and pleasure. You were not the problem and your love and patience were heartbreaking. Dear daughter, forgive me for the pain I have caused you over the years. I'm so sorry I let you down, over and over. I feel grateful for your love and wish you all the very best in your life. You are not responsible for my happiness. May you be at peace and may you experience much love, beauty and joy throughout your life. May I forgive my self and learn to truly love and forgive others... thank you for another chance today.

Three times in particular in my life I have become physically violent, and not in self defense. I am sorry. I promise to have the self control not to act this way anymore. I have brought shame and embarrassment to myself but I can't change the past.

I apologize to you, my daughter, for all the resentments I have toward you. Instead of praying for you and for our relationship, I fantasize about the day you will be out of our home. It is time for me to change; I embrace you as you are. Wow, that is very difficult to say. I guess my love for you has been conditional. So sorry.

I apologize to Self for all the lies and pretense I have lived over thirty years with my husband whom I have never truly loved and for not being a better role model for my daughters whom I have loved unconditionally but not courageously. I apologize to Self for so often wanting to please and thus living two selves, the inner one who is angry and resentful and the outer one who is always "making nice". I apologize to Self for choosing to live in shame and fear instead of truth and strength of character. I apologize to my friends for being too self absorbed to give in friendship what I have received, and to my mother who I unable to love as much as she deserved particularly before she died. I apologize to my breaking heart.

As I?m the kind of person who always wants to please people i`m always in danger not beeing truthful. I apologize to myself for although knowing this sometimes not beeing able to stay with the inner truth. And I promise to work always on doing better when I?m with people. Trying to be aware whats going on in my mind and speech. And I apologize for not beeing always truthful. I?m ashamed of this.

I apologize to you for judging you harshly when we spoke on the phone yesterday. Not just in my thoughts but telling you, even though you were feeling low already.. I apologize to myself for judging me for judging you, feeding that vicious cycle again. I apologize to my body for having to go through this again.

I am sorry to my children for not being better prepared about the divorce process when announcing the decision to divorce their father; I did not foresee a 'divorce' from them, my beloved kids. And though sometimes tempted, I vowed to not return lies with lies or anger with anger. I must remain true to love, compassion, patience, and honesty. The door to my heart is always open to you, unconditionally. Love, Mom

I am sorry I made inappropriate and coarse words to a lady in my life twice. I am sorry I yelled and swore at another person trying to help. I am sorry I hit my dad. I am sorry I did reprehensible things in his house. I am sorry to my neighbours for making too much noise.

I am deeply sorry that I have lived my life not trusting my inner knowing. I have instead allowed fear to get the upper hand and therefore failed to bring forth the goodness that was mine to give. I pray for the courage to reverse this pattern of being.

I made a promise to myself to act in a truthful and strong way so that I cannot harm myself or others. And if I should not be able to keep this promise I shall try to apologize first to me for beeing weak. And so I pray to my beloved Tara to help me develop the compassion and pure love. This is my life?s goal.

I am sorry to myself for the all the energy expended feeling guilty about how our relationship ended. I was strong, caring, stable, and focused as you fell into a major mental health break. I extended so much compassion and empathy toward you. I did nothing wrong, and am trying to free myself from self-blame. The psychosis was frightening to me, and I urged you to get professional help. You became hurt that I didn't want to continue the relationship under these conditions. I needed space to stay balanced, and you saw that as rejection. I don't think you could understand how frightening this was for me. I have felt so guilty for being cautious and apprehensive. I hope we can both continue to gain perspective and wisdom from this unexpected trauma.

I am sorry I believed the lies. Now they are the lies I say to myself as unwanted prayers -- a hamper wheel mind. I'm sorry to my children that I might not understand myself better to outlive these lies, and give you more selfless love in this lifetime. I'm sorry to my teachers, that I just couldn't maintain it. I'm sorry I wasted so much of my life in the mind of the past.

I apologize to the husband of the kind and beautiful woman with whom I had an affair twenty years ago. I betrayed your and your family's trust and caused you much misery. Nothing can ever mend the damage I did. I am deeply, deeply sorry for the pain I selfishly and unthinkingly caused you.

I am apologizing in advance for ending our colleague relationship. The trust has been broken, along with our friendship. I wish us both well, and I am sorry for hurting you.

I'm sorry for not trusting myself enough, for always having to subtly compare myself with others, for feeling selfconscious and for yearning for others' approval. I'm sorry for always busying myself with what I think I should be doing, instead of allowing me to be who I am and to live each moment fully. It takes a lot of effort and stress to live up to my expectations. I don't want to live in guilt, sense of burden and fear of rejection anymore. I don't want to judge myself and others anymore. I want to have trust in myself and believe in the value of my own life journey.

I am sorry for continuing to gossip. I am doing better but my speech is not always as skillful and heartful as it could be. I love my community and want to do better by them.

i apologize to the one who i thought was my soul mate [and still do] for being so angry and acting in an angry manner when we could no longer live together. i am grateful for all the good you brought into my life. i apologize for anything i did that was disappointing. i apologize for blaming you for all the hurt. i am so sorry and will not think in blame any longer.