Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness

by Gerald G. Jampolsky and William N. Thetford

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553341820
• Release Date: July 1985
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

recommend

This book came along at a perfect time for me. My mind was focusing on negativity - this book showed me there is another way, a better way.

Wonderful introduction to ACIM

The title is misleading and makes people not want to read it. When I read it I didn't find it to be about guilt per se. It was just a very spiritual book that awoke in me so much. I went on to read more books by this author and A Course in Miracles. I also found it helped me understand concepts about life, answered questions and unleashed my faith in God. I highly recommend it. It's easy to read.

What Are we Identifying Ourselves With?

Most of us, if not all of us have an "identity" problem. We say we know who we are, but do we? Most of us tend to identify ourselves with our physicality. The way we look to the outside world. We identify ourselves by our personalities, our behaviors, our actions, our inactions. But all of these things are not who we really are. So who are we, then? We are Spirit. We are Love. We are the stuff of God. Our personalities and our behaviors are all manufactured B.S. You can read that as Belief Systems. Before you entered into this world of form you were a Perfect, Whole, and Complete Creation of God. You were not born out of original sin...if there is anything "original" about sin...but you were born out of Original Innocence and no matter what you may have thought, or felt, or said, or did, or didn't do NOTHING can mar the beauty that you were created in and out of. Of course, the religionists don't want you to hear this. They want you to be so riddled with fear and so perforated with guilt so that you can keep coming back to their church so you can keep donating money. Save the money that you would normally tithe for the week and buy this book. Learn what true forgiveness really is. Forgiving is for giving; it is for seeing yourself, and others, and the world as it really is; just an illusion. It exists, but it doesn't. I know that is very contradictory, but it is the Truth. True reality cannot be killed, or hurt, or destroyed. True Reality is who and what we truly are. When we Identify ourselves with the Living Spirit rather than with our "hallucinations" we release fear instantly. Like Jesus, we are in the world, but not of it. This doesn't mean that some guy could stick a gun in my face and I won't drop a load in my pants, but what it does mean is that I might be able to quiet myself down enough to where I will be able to remember that Love is always more powerful than fear and if I can connect to the same Love that is in the man with the gun, then maybe the man will withdraw his weapon and if he doesn't and he shoots me, all he killed was an idea, he didn't kill me... all he killed was the flesh. You cannot kill Spirit...you cannot kill Love...you cannot kill, or destroy, or hurt the Life that everything is made in and out of. This book is truly a gift and even if you don't like it and want to go back to your guilt and fear based ideas about life, go ahead, but just remember, it's still just an illusion. Peace and Blessings.

Giving the Review is the same as Receiving the Review

Good-bye to Guilt is an esteem and image enhancer. The author comes from the heart and I personally feel it is the "truth." Giving is the same as receiving. Guilt is ego-based and destructive. His perceptions hit home: we only act out of two emotions -- love or fear. I also like the daily lessons so that one can put into practice the principles Mr. Jampolsky so eloquently shares throughout his book. I have personally benefited from the lessons presented in the book and have shared it with many others. I buy copies of this book and give them away to those who I feel are open-minded and willing to try something different.The book offers a way to release your fears by forgiving all, including the world. This is so simple that most cannot or will not get it. The practice of forgiveness is written in a way that nearly all who can read will be able to apply this simple, but difficult principle. But, not all will want to forgive. Mr. Jampolsky offers real-life examples that help to define the exact points he is trying to convey.I will continue to buy and distribute this book to countless others in need of it and who want it.Thank you for allowing me to review this book.Cindy Cañas =)