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Announcing the Return
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with a spoken-word & music CD
In this highly praised work, D. Patrick Miller reveals forgiveness as “a radical way of life that openly contradicts the most common and popular beliefs of this troubled world.”
In four concise sections — Seven Steps of Forgiving, Forgiving Others, Forgiving Yourself, and Where Forgiveness Leads — this poetic book of “challenges and meditations for anyone with something to forgive” provides the keys to a healing change of mind and heart.
First released in 1994 by Viking and as a Fearless paperback five years later, this book has changed the lives of thousands in difficult relationships, in therapy, in prison, and in myriad struggles to overcome grief, anger, and resentment. In a new hardcover gift edition, A LITTLE BOOK OF FORGIVENESS is offered once again to further the growth of inner peace that is so crucial to the spread of peace across the world.
The Tenth Anniversary Edition of this title features a new Foreword by Dr. Frederic Luskin, director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects. This edition is being released with an unabridged audio CD, featuring the full text of the book read by professional announcer Gene Bogart and musical ambience provided by Michael Masley.
GENE BOGART is a nationally recognized narrator and voiceover artist whose work is heard on countless TV commercials, websites, video games, documentaries, and television shows. His national corporate client list includes Motorola, Disney, and AT&T Wireless. He is also an audio and video producer, a musician, singer, songwriter (“Ease in the Keys”), and an on-camera TV personality. A long-time student of A Course in Miracles, Gene has served as MC for many live events in the metaphysical arena. His website is at www.genebogart.com.
MICHAEL MASLEY is credited in Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians as the inventor of the “bowhammer cymbalom,” a chromatic version of the classic hammer dulcimer played with two picks and eight finger-hammers strung with bowhair, creating the unique musical sound heard on this CD. His music has been broadcast on National Public Radio, in TV productions for CBS, NBC, and HBO, and in the feature film “Geronimo.” He plays frequently in open-air venues in the San Francisco Bay area where he is known as “the Beethoven of the Street.”
2004 ForeWord Magazine
“BOOK OF THE YEAR” FINALIST**
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“When first published in 1994, this was a book whose ideas and message were ahead of its time. . . Since 1996 I have directed the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, a series of research endeavors that helped substantiate the power of forgiveness to reduce hurt, depression, anger and stress in people who hold grudges. . . In addition to this research I also have taught forgiveness to thousands of hurt and angry people. What I find fascinating is that the things I taught, researched and proved to be true, D. Patrick Miller already knew. . .” • from the Foreword by Frederic Luskin, Ph.D., Director of Stanford Forgiveness Projects “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 “This 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 “A gentle, simple book that enables the ideal of forgiveness to act upon our minds with revolutionary force.” • Jacob Needleman, author of The American Soul and A Little Book on Love “An outstanding resource, this book gave me a jump start into the healing work of forgiveness. I have used it effectively in a variety of workshops, including ones at Attica Correctional Facility.” • Susan Regen, forgiveness workshop leader in New York “Forgiveness is one of the most challenging and powerful teachings of healing. A Little Book of Forgiveness is filled with compassion and wisdom.” • Joan Borysenko, author of Inner Peace for Busy Women and Minding the Body, Mending the Mind “I have the original edition published in 1994 and was checking Amazon to see if it was still around. Boy am I thrilled to see it has been updated ... As a alcohol and drug abuse counselor in the past and now an Expat coach and work/life balance coach... I find this is one of the books that I consistently refer my clients to read. Everyone I have shared it with has found healing, growth and positive insight. The concepts are simple, direct, and understandable. It helps you see areas in yourself and others that you may not even have realized you were harboring resentments or needed to forgive. Read it...but also grasp it... practice it in your life and you will find more joy.” • Julia Ferguson Andriessen on Amazon.com |
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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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