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Dr. Gerald Jampolsky Love Quotes and Sayings
#1-4 Love is Letting Go of Fear
1. Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want. [S]
2. Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. [S]
3. Teach only Love for that is what you are. [S]
4. The law of Love is that you are Love, and that as you give Love to others you teach yourself what you are. [S]
5. When we choose only Love as the director of our mind, we can experience the power and the miracle of Love. [S]
#6-7 GOOD-BYE TO GUILT
6. Giving love away is how I keep it. [S]
7. When we practice unconditional love, we recognize that giving is receiving, and there is no measurement, evaluation, or judgment placed on our love. [S]
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Gerald Jampolsky, MD, author of Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All, is an internationally recognized authority in the fields of psychiatry, health, business, and education. A graduate of Stanford Medical School, an author, and an inspirational speaker. Jampolsky learned about forgiveness by helping thousands of people over the past 30 years deal with the psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of facing both chronic and life-threatening illnesses. He is the founder of The Center for Attitudinal Healing and is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Love Is Letting Go of Fear (with over 3.5 million copies in print).
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Sayings by Dr. Gerald Jampolsky
#1-2 Wake-Up Calls
1. A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
2. The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
#3 GOOD-BYE TO GUILT [S]
3. I cannot forgive myself unless I am willing to forgive others.
#4 GOOD-BYE TO GUILT [S]
4. When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
#5 GOOD-BYE TO GUILT [S]
5. It took a long time for me to recognize that no one could hurt me but myself. It was only my own thoughts and attitudes that were hurtful. Lack of trust and self-deception were my own internal problems, which I projected onto others.
#6 GOOD-BYE TO GUILT [S]
6. Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Unless we forgive others for what we think they have done to us, we will be unable to forgive ourselves and experience peace of mind.
#7 GOOD-BYE TO GUILT [S]
7. Everything we see is but a mirror of what we are.
#8-11 Love is Letting Go of Fear
8. Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is the letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. [S]
9. To have inner peace and to experience Love, we must be consistent in what we think, say and do. [S]
10. Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. [S]
11. We really cannot change the external world nor can we change other people. We can change how we perceive the world, how we perceive others, and how we perceive ourselves. [S]
#12-16 Love is Letting Go of Fear
12. …when our mind is peaceful, the world and the people in it appear to us as peaceful. [S]
13. Everything we think, say or do reacts on us like a boomerang. When we send out judgments in the form of criticism, fury or other attack thoughts, they come back to us. When we refrain from making judgments and send out only Love, it comes back to us. [S]
14. Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are. [S]
15. Releasing the past means not blaming anyone, including ourselves. It means holding no grievances and totally accepting everyone, making no exceptions. [S]
16. …through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. [S]
#17-18 Love is Letting Go of Fear
17. Inner peace is experienced as we learn to forgive the world and everyone in it, and thereby see everyone, including ourselves, as blameless. [S]
18. The law of Love is based on abundance; we are completely filled with Love all the time, and our supply is always full and running over. When we give our Love unconditionally to others with no expectations of return, the Love within us extends, expands and joins. So by giving our Love away we increase the Love within us and everyone gains. [S]
#19-21 Teaching Only Love
19. 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. [S]
20. There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgments and petty grievances. [S]
21. Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness. [S]
#22 Love is the Answer
22. It is when judgment ceases that healing occurs. [S]