“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

At our labyrinth workshops we often do a “Forgiveness” ceremony. We know until our hearts are healed, and open with love for all, we put up “blocks” in our way that limit our  Divine Blessings and Good.  In our life time, there may have been people we just didn’t like. Some have hurt us or “rubbed” us the wrong way .  Whenever there is an emotion of “not liking” someone, there is a reason to forgive.  We may need to forgive ourselves as well as the other person.
I have found people I do not seem to like are those who need love the most.  When I have put my hand out to offer a gesture of kindness, whether it be a word of encouragement, an offer to buy them a cup of coffee, or just a smile, I notice there is a change in the energy.  This change is an emotional energy in me as well as them.  When I taught elementary school, I would sit in the chair, (before school started), of a child who was a behavior problem and just sent him or her love. It would change how I reacted to the child during the day and how the child behaved in school.  Love and Kindness are the tools to change any situation in human relationships.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“But I say to you, love your enemies and bless the one who curses you, and do what is beautiful to the one who hates you, and pray over those who take you by force
and persecute you.”
When we begin to  LOVE those that have hurt us, we realize they are there to bless us and raise our consciousness.  For it is easy to love those who love us. It is by far, more spiritually transforming to love unconditionally those who appear unlovable.  We are all God’s children, expressions of the most High.  When we realize that Truth, we see clearly through the eyes of God, have a healing in our heart, and realize there is nothing left to forgive!