Enlightenment and forgiveness

I feel this real attachment to the Buddhist religion and always want to know more. 

I'm not sure if I am searching for something more than the realities of everyday life, a special place or spiritualness leading me on in this life.  It could be this, so the thought of Enlightenment is very appealing and place of ease and happiness.  Letting everything just be, and accepting things as they are is special to me.  To fully be able to enjoy the smaller thing and feel no attachment to things that give me pain and just let things be is really really appealing. 

I found a lovely quote too, which I thought was fitting to some of my life experiences at the moment.  I'm wanting to acheive this always especially some of my friends who are feeling pain and angish in their lives at the moment so hope they find love in their heart to forgive and move on to a happier place. 

So anyway, the quote is:

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. 

Lewis B. Smedes

Lovely isn't it!!!