Jampolsky Quotes & Sayings

Love doesn't care what we call it. — Gerald Jampolsky

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

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

When Communication with others is from love to love ... it is deeply satisfying and healthy. — Gerald Jampolsky

Not judging is another way of letting go of fear and experiencing Love. When we learn not to judge others - and totally accept them, and not want to change them - we can simultaneously learn to accept ourselves. — Gerald Jampolsky

The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves. — Lee L Jampolsky

There is no right or wrong behavior. The only meaningful choice is between fear and love. — Gerald Jampolsky

Freedom, which is an aspect of health, remains impossible as long as we perceive our bodies as a complete definition of ourselves. — Lee L Jampolsky

The world does not have to change ... The only thing that has to change is our attitude. — Gerald Jampolsky

Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is a mental habit of the ego that we need to become aware of in order to see the consequences. Only then can we see into our thought system and realize that nothing could be more of a waste of time than to resist and complain about what already is. — Lee L Jampolsky

You can be right or you can be happy. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

Everything we see is but a mirror of what we are. — Gerald Jampolsky

Love is the total absence of fear. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

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 only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge. — Gerald Jampolsky

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

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. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love. — Lee L Jampolsky

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. — Gerald Jampolsky

Essentially, what the most important questions we can ever ask ourselves are, "Who am I? Who are we all? What do we share, and what is our purpose here? How do we discover meaning?" Addressing these questions is the core of Inspirational Psychology. — Lee L Jampolsky

For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same. — Lee L Jampolsky

Remembering and seeing are not the same, and that is why memories are of little use to us in forming loving relationships. — Gerald Jampolsky

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

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. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder. — Gerald Jampolsky

Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering. — Lee L Jampolsky

All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it for ourselves. — Gerald Jampolsky

To give is to receive ... — Gerald Jampolsky

No matter how sick your body is, extending Love will reduce your suffering and aid in healing. — Lee L Jampolsky

Inspirational Psychology brings peace and choice to life even in the most difficult of situations. — Lee L Jampolsky

You can learn to focus on love in your heart rather than the symptoms of your physical condition. — Lee L Jampolsky

More and more people are beginning to feel that there must be another way of thinking, perceiving, and acting. And perhaps the beginning of another way of looking at the world is to re-evaluate all of our beliefs. It is, after all, our beliefs that determine what we are, experience, and expect. When we are willing to take a new look at our own beliefs, we then have an opportunity to begin rediscovering who and what we are and to redetermine our true purpose on Earth. — Gerald Jampolsky

It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think. — Gerald Jampolsky

Most likely, when you are upset for any reason, it is rare that you will want to quickly see the real cause of your upset or the solution, but with practice you can begin to ask yourself honestly, is it the person/situation or is it my unforgiving thoughts about this person and the past that are upsetting me? — Lee L Jampolsky

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

The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant. — Gerald Jampolsky

The law of Love is that you are Love, and that as you give Love to others you teach yourself what you are. — Gerald Jampolsky

Love is the part of us that is real. — Gerald Jampolsky

Forgiveness is essential to health, growth, and healing. — Lee L Jampolsky

It is when judgment ceases that healing occurs. — Gerald Jampolsky

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. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. — Gerald Jampolsky

Within Inspirational Psychology, health doesn't refer to just the state of the body, but also the state of the mind, which affects the body. — Lee L Jampolsky

I trust that no loving thought goes unnoticed, even when I do not see immediate gratitude or behavior changes in the other person. — Lee L Jampolsky

Forgiveness does not mean condoning or agreeing with a horrendous act. It is a decision to no longer attack one's self. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

The body can limit our ability to experience life to the fullest, especially if we identify ourselves as being only our bodies. — Lee L Jampolsky

There is never a circumstance, no matter how catastrophic, that also does not hold within it an opportunity to better things, to better yourself. Every moment brings with it an opportunity to love, to forgive, to grow beyond your shortcomings. — Lee L Jampolsky

Love, then, is letting go of fear. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness. — Gerald Jampolsky

Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic. — Gerald Jampolsky

What if nothing needs to change other than our perception of what we see? — Lee L Jampolsky

Fear can be known as the most virulent and damaging virus known to humankind. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

If you believe you are an effect of the world around you - that your happiness is dependent on this thing or that person - then you are always going to be a victim of circumstance to one degree or another. — Lee L Jampolsky

Choose to experience peace rather than conflict. — Gerald Jampolsky

Most of us, if we are truly honest with ourselves, have an ever-evolving and ever-growing list of what we think we must change in order to be at peace or to be happy. — Lee L Jampolsky

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. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

Freedom rests on finding the meaning and lessons even in our greatest pain. — Lee L Jampolsky

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? — Gerald G. Jampolsky

Look at a person's light, not their lampshade. — Gerald Jampolsky

When the mind no longer sees itself as a body, forever in bondage to the body, the mind can be free and at peace even when we are physically sick. — Lee L Jampolsky

If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace. — Gerald Jampolsky

Whenever we give help, we unfailingly see that the answer to all our needs is already within the very situation we think is hurting us. By becoming totally open and harmless, we see that there is no one who cannot help us and no instant when we are not surrounded by God's love and His guiding presence. — Gerald Jampolsky

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent. — Gerald Jampolsky

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. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

Many people live in a self-imposed prison and don't even know it. — Lee L Jampolsky

More succinctly put, Inspirational Psychology offers ways to live, learn about, and practice love. — Lee L Jampolsky

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. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present. — Gerald Jampolsky

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. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

One of the most liberating personal discoveries I have made is the knowledge that whenever I am upset, there is another way of looking at any situation, person, or condition. — Lee L Jampolsky

It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment. — Lee L Jampolsky

Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice to discover our true nature, which is Love. — Lee L Jampolsky

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

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions. — Lee L Jampolsky

You can learn from your health challenge what is most important and become a better human being. — Lee L Jampolsky

Master the power of attitude and you'll live a powerful life. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

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. — Gerald Jampolsky

Happiness is more about removing the blocks to Love and remembering who you are than changing your situation or another person. — Lee L Jampolsky

I wonder why / no one ever told me / that the rainbow / and the treasure / were both within me. — Gerald Jampolsky

What many fail to realize is that being attached to what we think we want and don't have while resisting what is happening in the moment is the cause, not the cure, of much personal suffering and interpersonal conflict. — Lee L Jampolsky

Though few would admit it, most of the time, when people are upset they don't actually want to feel differently, they want agreement and ways to make a situation, condition, or person change. — Lee L Jampolsky

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

To be impatient is to be hooked on the future. — Gerald Jampolsky

Most of us are confused about what is real. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

Listening with undivided attention and unconditional love Is perhaps the greatest gift we can extend to others. — Gerald Jampolsky

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer. — Lee Jampolsky

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. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

The core of who you are, your true nature, is Love. — Lee L Jampolsky

The crucial ingredient for healing any relationship problem is the willingness to no longer see value in playing the game of blame and guilt. — Jerry Jampolsky

What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all? — Lee L Jampolsky

Most people believe they know what it is that would make them happy, and what it is that they should get rid of in order to be happy. Unfortunately, few actually do. — Lee L Jampolsky

Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions. — Gerald Jampolsky

Today I will give to others only the gifts I want to accept for myself. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

Try finding love, rather than finding fault. — Gerald Jampolsky

You may not have chosen what is happening to your body, but you can choose how you respond. — Lee L Jampolsky

Giving means extending one's love with no conditions, no expectations and no boundaries ... Peace of minds occurs, therefore, when we put all our attention into giving and have no desire to get anything from, or to change, another person ... The giving motivation leads to a sense of inner peace and joy that is unrelated to time. — Gerald Jampolsky

A miracle is when we respond with compassion where a moment ago we may have believed there was something to be upset, blaming, or angry about. — Lee L Jampolsky

When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love — Gerald G. Jampolsky

Forgiveness is not a matter of feeling superior, of feeling sorry for our parents because they didn't' know any better. It comes when we understand that as humans we all do the very best we can, and we can't ask for more than that. Forgiveness is making the choice to find no more value in anger, and to see that we are all God's light, all joined, and the separations we feel are only part of the illusions of the ego. — Gerald Jampolsky

Everyday ask yourself the question, Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict? — Gerald Jampolsky