“Without forgiveness I will still be blind.”
Forgiveness lifts.
As long as you hang on to an image that you have judged as less than perfect you are locked in a frame of assumptions and assessments founded in a misunderstanding. When you set the image free, the misunderstanding will fade and dissolve because you have stopped the loop from continuing. Then the Light will shine away the illusory image and perception will no longer hold you prisoner.
Source and Its extension, Creation, are one. This truth will dawn on you when you allow forgiveness to release the shackles of misguided thinking.