Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

With Love as our only reality, health and wholeness can be viewed as inner peace, and healing can be be seen as letting go of fear.

- Gerald G. Jampolsky

As most of my readers know, I have been involved in a personal letting-go experiment for almost a year now. And, as the year has progressed, the process of letting go of masterial things no longer needed or wanted has led to other, non-material, forms of letting go: mental, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual. So, it would probably come as no surprise that in this eleventh month of my experiment, I would come to this very challenging non-material form of letting go: i.e. letting go of Fear.

In the past few months, I have been re-reading some of the classic books in the area of personal transformation. Here is how a review on Amazon.com describes the book that inspired the theme for this month's newsletter: An inspirational classic since 1979, LOVE IS LETTING GO OF FEAR remains one of the seminal works in the transpersonal movement.

If you consider nothing more than the title, you have still received a powerful lesson: Love is Letting Go of Fear.

These six words are deceptively simple. Easy to say. Not so easy to do.

I read this book is 1979 when it first came out. I re- read it about two weeks ago. The book does not take much time to read - perhaps an hour or two, cover to cover. But the lessons taught therein could take a lifetime to master. I know this because two different versions of me have read this book. When I first read it, every concept was new to me, and none of the lessons were a part of me then. Now, some 28 years later, I have come a long way in some areas, and there is still more to master.

Although the book is refreshingly concise and to the point, and the 12 lessons contained within (based on teachings from The Course in Miracles) are short and laser-focused, the implementation of the concepts in these 12 lessons is a whole different story.

What a leap it is between knowing what to do and doing it!

To read more about this topic, click on to the link to my blogsite below and select the article Letting Go of Fear.

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Have you ever noticed that the titles of some self-help books can be a lesson in and of themselves? I buy a lot of books, including self-help books, and many have great titles. But there are a few whose titles so skillfully capture the author's message that you don't even have to read the books in order to integrate the author's wisdom in a deep and powerful way. Here are ten of my favorites. May their title messages empower you!

As of May 10th, I have completed 11 of the 12 months in my year-long Letting Go Experiment. The BIG 365-day milestone is coming into view. And although I may be about to cross the finish line on this particular marathon experiment, I doubt that it will really be over for me on June 10th, for I still have a lot of letting go to do.