Top 60 Gerald G. Jampolsky Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s not the situation that’s causing your stress, it’s your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

2. “Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

3. “Listening with undivided attention and unconditional love Is perhaps the greatest gift we can extend to others.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

4. “Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

5. “Your attitude is everything, and it determines how you experience every aspect of your life.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

6. “Not judging is another way of letting go of fear and experiencing Love. When we learn not to judge others – and totally accept them, and not want to change them – we can simultaneously learn to accept ourselves.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

7. “To give is to receive...”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

8. “The law of Love is that you are Love, and that as you give Love to others you teach yourself what you are.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

9. “The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

10. “Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

11. “When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

12. “Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

13. “How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

14. “I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

15. “There is no right or wrong behavior. The only meaningful choice is between fear and love.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

16. “Love is the part of us that is real.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

17. “Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

18. “Look at a person’s light, not their lampshade.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

19. “This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

20. “We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

21. “A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

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

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

23. “Forgiveness means letting go of the past.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

24. “There are only two emotions: one is Love and the other is fear. Love is our true reality. Fear is something our mind has made up, and is therefore unreal.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

25. “Try finding love, rather than finding fault.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

26. “Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

27. “Love is the total absence of fear.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

28. “Everything we see is but a mirror of what we are.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

29. “Forgiveness does not mean condoning or agreeing with a horrendous act. It is a decision to no longer attack one’s self.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

30. “Today I will give to others only the gifts I want to accept for myself.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

31. “What we experience is our state of mind projected outward.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

32. “If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

33. “Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

34. “The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

35. “To be impatient is to be hooked on the future.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

36. “Forgiveness is an inner correction that lightens the heart. It is for our peace of mind first. Being at peace, we will now have peace to give to others, and this is the most permanent and valuable gift we can possibly give.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

37. “Remembering and seeing are not the same, and that is why memories are of little use to us in forming loving relationships.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

38. “Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

39. “Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

40. “As long as we hold unforgivable thoughts in our mind, we will not be able to experience total inner peace.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

41. “When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

42. “All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it for ourselves.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

43. “It is when judgment ceases that healing occurs.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

44. “The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

45. “How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

46. “We are always expressing either Love or fear. Fear is really a call for help, and therefore a request for Love.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

47. “Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

48. “To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

49. “The Course states that there are only two emotions: love and fear. The first is our natural inheritance, and the other our mind manufactures.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

50. “To give is to receive – this is the law of Love. Under this law, when we give our Love away to others we gain, and whatever we give we simultaneously receive.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky