Agape in GERALD JAMPOLSKY’s “Love is Letting Go of Fear”

In keeping with my practice of interpreting modern writing with the biblical tradition of distinguishing the different meanings of love, for those places where Gerald Jampolsky uses ‘love’ in a spiritual way that the meaning is ‘agape,’ the word was changed in the following quotes.

“By choosing agape more consistently than fear, we can change the nature and quality of our relationships. We choose to see others as extending agape or being fearful and calling for help in the form of agape. With this new perception, it becomes easier to give both total agape and acceptance to the other person and therefore to experience inner peace at the same time.

“Agape is the total absence of fear. Wouldn’t our lives be more meaningful if we looked to what has no beginning and no ending as our reality? Only agape fits this definition of the eternal.

“All fear is past and only agape is here.

“Throughout the day, whenever you are tempted to be fearful, remind yourself that you can experience agape instead.

“Throughout the day, whenever you are tempted to see yourself as victimized, repeat: Only my agape thoughts are real. “We all manufacture our own dust and static that serve only to interfere with seeing, hearing, and experiencing agape within ourselves and others.

“To give is to receive — this is the law of agape. Under this law, when we give ‘our’ agape away to others, we gain, and whatever we give we simultaneously receive. The law of agape is based on abundance; we are completely filled with agape all the time, and our supply is always full and running over.

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

“Without the [false] belief in separation, we can accept our own healing and extend healing agape to all those around us. 

“We feel vulnerable when we believe that the fearful past is real and forget that our only reality is agape, and that agape exists this instant. When we see no value in recycling [the ‘garbage’ of the past], we remove the blocks to our being free to forgive and share in agape now. Only in this way can we be truly happy.

“Feel the peaceful bliss and know that the function of agape is to unite all things unto itself.

[EPILOGUE:] “Let us recognize that we are united as one Self and illuminate the world with the light of agape that shines through us. Let us awaken to the knowledge that the essence of our being is agape, and, as such, we are the light of the world.”