“The Way of Forgiveness” returns
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At a time when angry shouting seems to dominate the airwaves and public discussions, Fearless Books announces the return of a classic book dedicated to the radical notion that forgiveness is the key to real power.

THE WAY OF FORGIVENESS: Letting Go, Easing Stress, and Building Strength first appeared in 1994 as“A Little Book of Forgiveness” (Viking) and has since changed the lives of many thousands of readers. The new Fearless Books edition features revised material throughout, including expanded instructions for the classic “Seven Steps of Forgiveness” devised by author D. Patrick Miller, based on more than two decades of studying and practicing the principles of forgiveness in his own life.

“Shouting and condemning others can seem like a righteous demonstration of strength,” says Miller. “But rants and outbursts seldom solve any problems, and often create new ones. I think many people mistake forgiveness as a way to avoid conflict or let people off the hook. The kind of forgiveness I am talking about is a daily discipline of learning to see things differently, which enables you to respond to challenges with clarity, compassion, and ingenuity. If you really want to change things and have a lasting effect on people, forgiveness is a better strategy than anything else.”

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INCLUDED IN THIS EDITION:

• Foreword by Frederic Luskin, Ph.D., founder of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects
  
• Introduction by D. Patrick Miller
  
• The Seven Steps of Forgiveness
  
• Forgiving Others
  
• Forgiving Yourself
  
• Where Forgiveness Leads
  
• The Seven Steps Expanded (with workshop-style instructions)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THE WAY OF FORGIVENESS Foreword by Frederic Luskin, Ph.D. Introduction Seven Steps of Forgiveness Forgiving Others Forgiving Yourself Where Forgiveness Leads The Seven Steps Expanded

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 become 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.    

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