“I will not hurt myself again today.”
As long as you do not accept forgiveness as your only function, you will be in attack mode against the images you think you see in the world. And you will hurt yourself. That link might not be immediately clear to everyone.
While there is a time of assertion, of proclaiming to the world and to yourself who you are, and of standing for what you feel is worthwhile etc., there will come a time that your self-concept will transcend your previous opposition to how things appear in the images you think you see in the world. Then your proclamation of your true nature will be about letting go of – forgive – all internal hindrances that would impede the recognition of your deepest desire for freedom for all of the Sonship.