attitude about it,” Jerry replied in a very kind, quiet voice. “There’s probably something very
positive going to come from all this. Let’s look to see what it is.”
We had the talk he suggested, and, with his facilitation and Diane’s, the other house guest
and I took the first steps on the road back to love. I was really grateful to have Jerry around,
during a time when I just plain lost touch with my Center, and Who I Really Am. Without
taking sides, without making judgments, without any drastic interventions other than a
continuing suggestion to look at things in a different way and give myself permission to see
another’s point of view, Diane and Jerry not only played a huge role in healing the moment,
but gave me tools with which to apply attitudinal healing principles to everyday life.
Not all of us can be lucky enough to be around Jerry Jampolsky when we’re having a rough
moment, but we can be around Jerry’s wisdom. That’s why I am excited about his new book,
Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All.
What makes Jerry Jampolsky stand out is his remarkable attitude. It heals everything in sight;
it even healed Jerry’s sight.
It happened that during the time we spent together, Jerry was experiencing some medical
complications involving his eyesight, which was deteriorating. In fact, on one of the days we
were there, he was scheduled to have some outpatient surgery, and there was a real
possibility that the procedure could cause his eyesight to be diminished, rather than
improved. In fact, there was a chance that he might lose his sight in one eye altogether.
None of this seemed to bother Jerry. He wasn’t giving it a second thought. He simply wasn’t
going to dwell on it. He avoided any discussion of it during the days before the surgery, and I
remember that he left for the hospital with the biggest smile. “Everything is going to be just
fine,” he announced, “no matter how it turns out.
I learned something that day from a Master.
To accept something is not to agree with it. It is simply to embrace it, whether you agree with
it or not.
Yes. I could see that Jerry was accepting and blessing the experience he was having.
You give something your blessing when you give it your best energies, your highest thoughts.
That’s why I think immediately of Jerry when I hear about the Five Attitudes of God. He’s a
person who practices those attitudes consistently.
People are always asking me how my life has changed since my books have come out.
Meeting and becoming friends with people like Jerry Jampolsky is one change that has
blessed me deeply. Connecting and developing personal relationships with many people who
I have personally admired through the years has been one of the most instructive and
humbling outcomes of having
produced the Conversations with God trilogy. I have seen in these extraordinary people what I
have yet to master, and they have inspired me.
There have been other changes, of course, and the most important of these is in my
relationship with God.
I now have a personal relationship with God, and that has resulted in an experience of
continued well-being, of quiet empowerment, of personal growth and expansion, of deeply
enriching inspiration, and of sure and certain love. As a result of this, every other important
aspect of my life has changed as well.
Everything about the way I hold the experience of relationship is different, and my personal
relationships are reflecting that. My personal interactions with others have become joyful and
satisfying. As for life partnership, I am at this writing in the fifth year of my marriage to Nancy,
and ours has been almost a fairytale romance. It was wonderful at the beginning, and it has
become even more wonderful with every passing day. That does not mean it is guaranteed to