LITTLE BOOK OF FORGIVENESS~Patrick Miller ~PSYCHOLOGY HEALING~HB~SELF THERAPY

Description: A LITTLE BOOK OF FORGIVENESS By D. Patrick Miller Hardcover LkNew 1st Edition. Condition is "Like New". Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Book brand new //Dust jacket like new This highly-praised book of challenges and meditations encourages readers to think about forgiveness -- of others and themselves -- in new ways. The author's perspective is rooted in diverse spiritual traditions with a vision that is clear, compassionate, and transformational. "A gentle, simple book that enables the ideal of forgiveness to act upon our minds with revolutionary force." -- JACOB NEEDLEMAN, author of A Little Book on Love and Time and the Soul "It helped me go to a deeper level on my own path of forgiveness. It's a wonderful book!" -- LOUISE HAY, author of You Can Heal Your Life "We all need what this book offers." -- DR. BERNIE SIEGEL "What beautiful work -- clearheaded, generous, and profound in its lush simplicity." -- WALLY LAMB, novelist, author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True It might seem a lot easier to forgive someone if only he or she would show signs of changing. The paradox is that we are unlikely to see signs of change in others until we have forgiven them. This is true for two reasons: First, resentment is blinding. It limits our perception of what is real (or changing) in the present, and shuts down our capacity to envision a happier future. Second, a subtle but crucial function of forgiveness is that it tacitly gives others permission to change... When you are trying to decide whether someone deserves your forgiveness, you are asking the wrong question. Ask instead whether you deserve to be someone who consistently forgives. "Sweet revenge" is junk food for the soul. The brief rush that revenge provides will always be followed by the degradation of one's character. There is a real joy to be found in setting things right, but that always involves changing oneself for the better first. Forgiving your flaws and failures does not mean looking away from them or lying about them. Look at them as a string of pitiful or menacing hitchhikers whom you can't afford not to pick up on your journey to a changed life. Each one of them has a piece of the map you need hidden in its shabby clothing... Forgiveness is a long night walk by the ocean at ebb tide, with the surf only murmuring. Forgiveness replaces the need to anticipate fearfully with the capacity to accept gracefully and improvise brilliantly. It does not argue with fate, but recognizes the opportunities latent within it. If necessity is the mother of invention, forgiveness is the midwife of genius. Forgiveness is not mere sympathy, nor condescension, nor forced generosity. It is the ultimate declaration of equality, founded on the recognition that all crimes are the same crime, every failing the human failing, and every insult a cry for help. Forgiveness is the science of the heart: a discipline of discovering all the ways of being that will extend your love to the world, and discarding all the ways that do not. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. We all need to forgive others for having hurt us, whether intentionally or unintentionally. But to do that we must also learn to forgive ourselves for the wrongs we have committed against God and our neighbor. Miller writes succinctly about the selfishness of not forgiving yourself and releasing yourself to do good in the world. It is arrogance to hold a grievance against yourself or others. Drawing from 'A Course in Miracles', Miller expands on the them that every thought is either a loving response or a cry for help. Everyone makes mistakes and everyone needs forgiveness. God gives us the gift of forgiveness and we should likewise extend this (seemingly undeserved) favor to everyone including our own selves. This is one of the books I give in my Christian counseling practice

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