Gerald Jampolsky Quotes

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

You can be right or you can be happy.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

As a child I was told and believed that there was a treasure buried beneath every rainbow. I believed it so much that I have been unsuccessfully chasing rainbows most of my life. I wonder why no one ever told me that the rainbow and the treasure were both within me.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want...

How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.

When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love

Fear and Love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want. By choosing Love more consistently than fear, we can change the nature and quality of our relationships.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning or agreeing with a horrendous act. It is a decision to no longer attack one’s self.

Love is Letting go of fear Love itself Remains constant only the particular body from whom we sometimes expect it may change

Love is the total absence of fear, Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

There are only two emotions: one is Love and the other is fear. Love is our true reality. Fear is something our mind has made up, and is therefore unreal.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

Today I will give to others only the gifts I want to accept for myself.

When we find ourselves irritated, depressed, angry, or ill, we can be sure we have chosen the wrong goal and are responding to fear.

To give is to receive—this is the law of Love. Under this law, when we give our Love away to others we gain, and whatever we give we simultaneously receive.

And in those first fifty years I believed there was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and it was my goal to find that pot of gold. Now I realize that we are the rainbow, the pot of gold is love, and that is what we actually are.

Most of us are living as though life were happening to us rather than through us. We are not present to the fact that we are constantly generating our lives, as though they were great works of art. The tools we are given from which to create are our thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, actions, decisions, and words. Love is letting go of fear. —Gerald Jampolsky

We are always expressing either Love or fear. Fear is really a call for help, and therefore a request for Love.

Forgiveness is the letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

What we experience is our state of mind projected outward.

The Course states that there are only two emotions: love and fear. The first is our natural inheritance, and the other our mind manufactures.

Our egos motivate us to believe that we will feel more peaceful and happy if we find someone to blame and direct our anger at that person.

Love is the total absence of fear.

Most of us are confused about what is real.

Master the power of attitude and you'll live a powerful life.

I can be of no real help to another unless I see that the two of us are in this together, that all of our differences are superficial and meaningless, and that only the countless ways we are alike has any importance at all.

I found the Course essential in my struggle for personal transformation. It helped me recognize that I really did have a choice of experiencing peace or conflict, and that this choice is always between accepting truth or illusion.

Do I choose to experience Peace of Mind or do I choose to experience Conflict? Do I choose to experience Love or Fear? Do I choose to be a Love Finder or a Fault Finder? Do I choose to be a Love Giver or a Love Sender? Is this communication (verbal or nonverbal) Loving to the other person and is it Loving to me?

Love, then, is really everything that is of value, and fear can offer us nothing because it is nothing.

Love, then, is letting go of fear.

This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

see worry as a waste of time because, in actuality, worrying doesn’t work!

Fear can be known as the most virulent and damaging virus known to humankind.

Adults are children, too, because in every adult's heart, there is a child's life that will stay there for eternity. So please listen to children, because when you don't, it is like not listening to yourself.

Gerald G. Jampolsky, famoso psiquiatra y autor de más de veinte best sellers sobre psicología y filosofía, la aptitud para ser feliz está influenciada en un 45 % por genes y en un 15 % por las circunstancias, lo cual significa que el 40 % restante lo determinamos cada uno

it will be helpful to keep the following underlying themes in mind: Peace of mind is our single goal. Forgiveness is our single function and the way to achieve our goal of peace of mind. Through forgiveness, we can learn not to judge others and to see everyone, including ourselves, as guiltless.

I am beginning to see that I don't have to judge or interpret the motives and behaviors of others. There is no need to decide who are the good guys and who are the bad, who should be blamed and who punished. I find it truly is "safe" to surrender the script written by me and trust in God's script.

In making practical application of the material covered in this book to everyday solutions, it will be helpful to keep the following underlying themes in mind: Peace of mind is our single goal. Forgiveness is our single function and the way to achieve our goal of peace of mind. Through forgiveness, we can learn not to judge others and to see everyone, including ourselves, as guiltless. We can let go of fear when we stop judging and stop projecting the past into the future, and live only in the now. We can learn to accept direction from our inner intuitive voice, which is our guide to knowing. After our inner voice gives us direction, it will also provide the means for accomplishing whatever is necessary. In following one’s inner guidance, it is frequently necessary to make a commitment to a specific goal even when the means for achieving it are not immediately apparent. This is a reversal of the customary logic of the world, and can be thought of as “putting the cart before the horse.” We do have a choice in determining what we perceive and the feelings we experience. Through retraining of the mind we can learn to use positive active imagination. Positive active imagination enables us to develop positive, loving motion pictures in our minds.

According to Gerald G. Jampolsky, a famous psychiatrist and the author of many bestsellers about psychology and philosophy, an aptitude for happiness is determined 45 percent by genes and 15 percent by circumstances. That means that the remaining 40 percent is based on our beliefs and attitude about life. Even at ninety-five, Jampolsky is still seeing patients and writing; he goes to the gym five days a week, and every morning when he wakes up he gives thanks for the new day and commits to live it happily, no matter his physical state. Age should not limit our energy or creativity or our willingness to participate in the world.

For so many people searching for peace and purpose, the most debilitating source of pain has been the struggle to forgive. Having experienced the trauma of childhood abuse and personal betrayals at different points of my life, I have great compassion for anyone facing what might seem like an insurmountable hurdle. The journey to release all grudges, to relinquish the quest for revenge, and to let go of the fantasy of what might have been is one of the most difficult spiritual challenges we’ll ever face. But I promise you, it is also the most rewarding. Because the other side of forgiveness is freedom. There was a time when I believed the act of forgiveness meant accepting the offender, and by doing so, condoning the act. I didn’t understand that the true purpose of forgiveness is to stop allowing whatever that person did to affect how I live my life now. I only began to see a different path for myself after an expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Gerald G. Jampolsky, shared his definition: “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different.

As each of us moves toward the single goal of achieving peace of mind for ourselves, we can also experience the joining of our minds that follows the removal of the blocks to our awareness of Love’s presence.

A book will come to a person when he or she is ready for its message, and often it will come in an amazing way. The truth also comes to people—ready or not—in some pretty amazing ways.

Am I always in a blissful spiritual space? Of course not. I am a work in process and believe I will be a work in process as long as I remain in this body. Every day there are challenges around judgments of others and myself. I have periods of impatience and irritation and not feeling at peace with myself. What is different now is that these periods are much shorter in duration, when I choose to remember, as constantly as I can, that it is only my own thoughts and attitudes that can hurt me.

The world that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, heal our relationship with our past, and expand our sense of now by releasing the fear in our minds. This changed perception leads to the recognition that we are not separate, but that we have always been joined.

Instead of seeing others as attacking us, we can see them as fearful. We are always expressing either Love or fear. Fear is really a call for help, and therefore a request for Love.

Releasing the past means not blaming anyone, including ourselves. It means holding no grievances and totally accepting everyone, making no exceptions. It means a willingness to see only the light in others, and not their lampshade

Lo que necesitamos perdonar en los demás puede ser algo en nosotros mismos que hemos encubierto en nuestra conciencia.

perdonar —sea a un amigo cercano o a toda una sociedad— no elimina la responsabilidad de las personas quienes han hecho cosas que causaron la muerte o infligieron infortunio o dolor emocional; perdonar no significa condonar tal comportamiento. Por encima de todo: perdonar es el proceso de liberarte de la atadura que te mantiene aferrado a los pensamientos negativos que alberga la mente, de curar tu mente y alma.

Lo que necesitamos perdonar en los demás puede ser algo en nosotros mismos que hemos encubierto a nuestra conciencia.

Recuerda que el propósito de perdonar no es cambiar a la otra persona, sino cambiar tus pensamientos conflictivos y negativos.

I believe that the purpose of God’s guidance is to show us how to release our minds from fear so we may know peace and be truly kind and sensitive to others, which we cannot do when we are fear-dominated. Both

We ask for help and help is given. Often we do not recognize that other people’s alcoholism, sexual betrayals, chronic illnesses, and alienating behavior are actually cries for help. But unquestionably God recognizes every plea no matter what form it takes, and God finds some way to give us as much help as we are willing to receive at that time.

In order to experience peace instead of conflict, it is necessary to shift our perception.

we can suffer economic loss and see it as an opportunity for a spiritual transformation.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Although Love is always what we want, we are often afraid of Love without consciously knowing it, and so we may act both blind and deaf to Love’s presence.

Your thoughts create your reality To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. ​— ​Gerald Jampolsky,

it felt to me as if I was reconnecting with a very familiar soul. Indeed, Jerry revealed the complete story of his life from birth until present in such surprisingly rich detail that I remember an inner whisper, “He is catching up since your last lifetime together.” He spared nothing even that he felt insignificant, alienated and alone.

Jerry was devoting himself to Spirit more and more. He began writing inspired poetry and messages to himself. He gave up alcohol, and he avoided coffee as a stimulant.

began by reading A Course in Miracles Workbook, but the daily lessons were often hard for me to understand, so eventually Judy and I did the lessons together, which lasted for several years. Our relationship began to transform from a “special relationship” to a “Holy Relationship.

Center for Attitudinal Healing. This was the beginning of the first Center offering free, support services. Now in the fifth decade, independent Centers and Groups continue to emerge all around the world.

I was fifty years old when I consciously started my spiritual journey, and now, at ninety-two, I am still a student of A Course in Miracles. Every morning, Diane and I read a lesson from the Course, meditate on it, discuss it, and do our best to remember it throughout the day. While God’s Light has become more consistent in our lives, we find that retraining our minds takes a continual commitment.

My outer success did not change the inner state of my mind and heart. Part of me kept insisting there had to be more to life than this. I do not remember consciously thinking that I was a seeker or that I was looking for my home for peace of mind. But I do remember well that chronic state of emptiness and sadness, superimposed on giant pools of damned-up inside tears. In nearly every area of my life, I felt no one really understood me and I understood nothing at all.

Guilt and fear are so intertwined that they cannot be separated. Love and guilt cannot exist simultaneously any more than love and fear can.

The love in us can unite with the love in others, but two bodies can never become one.

When we are centered on giving, we also receive, because our personal anxieties begin to dissipate from our thoughts. When we recognize that what is in the best interests of another is also of complete benefit to us, we gain inner tranquillity, if only briefly, because for that moment we have left our personal hell behind. The

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

used to feel that I was a victim of the world I saw. When things would go wrong, I would blame the world or those in it for my misery and feel justified in my anger. Today, I know I am not a victim of the world I see, and therefore tend to take responsibility for whatever I perceive and for the emotions I experience.

Attitudinal Healing is not a religion or religious. It is a practical spirituality that supports and is compatible with all faiths and belief systems. People from many cultures, faiths, and denominations, as well as those who follow no faith at all, are welcome to use the principles of Attitudinal Healing.

rise to a higher level of freedom. We are not being called to run away from danger but toward safety.

Spend as much time as you can before tomorrow ridding yourself of all the past, painful guilty, fearful thoughts and experiences you have had with your son.