The Healing Power of Kindness: Volume One: Releasing Judgment

by Kenneth Wapnick

The idea for this book originated with a talk given at the end of a week-long class on sickness and healing at our Center. The teaching staff was struck by the paradox of students on the one hand spending a week discussing healing, in terms of forgiveness and undoing separation, and on the other, fervently practicing judgment and condemnation of each other, directly opposite to the kind, gentle tone of Jesus' words in A Course in Miracles . This talk thus was devoted to the kindness of healing, in hopes of reinforcing Jesus' message of undoing separation. Kindness reflects our inherent oneness with each other, while attack drives us still further apart in our awareness. In reviewing the principles of sickness and healing and some common misapplications, the discussion in this book helps us undo the sources of unkindness, so that in all our interactions we would reflect the Source of kindness. It is hoped that this little book will serve to remind us all of the need to be kind, the spiritual principle par excellence.

Genres: Spirituality

134 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2004

Reviews

[Denise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Este es un buen libro para aquellos interesados en Un Curso de Milagros, pues va explicando de manera sencilla y con ejemplos uno de los conceptos de dicho curso: la bondad. A grandes rasgos habla de la importancia de liberarse del juicio y la culpa y de como trabajar en la bondad hacia los demás y hacia nosotros mismos. El trabajo constante y cotidiano en ello nos permitirá alcanzar la paz. Y es un trabajo consciente el que tenemos que hacer para lograrlo. Este es un libro relativamente pequeño y de fácil lectura, pero en lo personal sí creo que hay que releerlo y repasarlo varias veces para terminar de asentar el mensaje que tiene para el camino espiritual de aquellos que tenemos interés en Un Curso de Milagros, especialmente en el tema de emitir juicios, la culpa y el perdón.

[Charmin · Rating 3 out of 5]

HIGHLIGHTS:
1. ONENESS:
- Kindness reflects our inherent oneness with each other, while attack drives us still further apart in our awareness.
- Judging is allowing someone else’s circumstances to have an effect on you.

2. YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL:
- As long as you think, you are special, you obviously are as sick as the other person. Your task, once again, is to get yourself out of the way.

3. MAKING YOU SICK:
- If you are anxious, fearful, depressed, or guilty because of someone’s illness, there is something healing in yourself that you were not aware of.
- What is making you sick is —- you want to be right, and you want to be on your own.

4. UNCOMFORTABLE:
- Be grateful for situations that make us the most uncomfortable, there is something healing in us.

5. EGO:
- The ego is a 100% thought system. It put you back into hatred and murder.

6. FORGIVENESS:
- Unforgiveness is the problem, the solution is forgiveness.
- Your concern about someone else is a projection of something unhealed in you.

7. ATTACK:
- You do not have to attack.
- Before you correct someone’s fear, you first want to be sure that your mind is joined with that person’s mind.

8. GUILT:
- The guilt in our minds is a shield against our minds, and our bodies are shields against the guilt.

9. SICK:
- Sickness is a defense against the truth.
Kindness heals.
- Express love and help in a form the other person can accept.
- The world that is saved, is the world of the sick mind that believes it is separated. As long as that sick mind believes it is a body that interacts with other bodies, the healing thought of love must be expressed in the specific form we believe we are in: the world ends the body.

10. KINDNESS:
- You will be kind to everyone, all the time because there is only kindness within you
- Experiencing his love leads us to demonstrate it to everyone else: kindness, extending kindness to kindness.

[Juan Jesús · Rating 5 out of 5]

Una maravillosa enseñanza para evitar todo tipo de fanatismo al estudiar «Un Curso de Milagros».