26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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This book contains the anwers to all my questions about life, September 12, 1999
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This review is from: The Silence of the Heart: Reflections of the Christ Mind - Part II (Paperback)
This book has recently be translated into Dutch; title: "Stilte van het hart". I am amazed about the fact that it appears to answer all the important questions about life I have--even the ones I wasn't fully aware of until now. It may be especially helpful for people who feel confused about matters of religion or faith, but also for people who chose a spiritual path and are satisfied with their choice--just to enlighten things that are not yet fully clear to them. (As a student of A Course In Miracles, I am among the latter.)
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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Recipe for spiritual healing, February 19, 2005
This review is from: The Silence of the Heart: Reflections of the Christ Mind - Part II (Paperback)
The Silence of the heart is the place we find ourselves after we get out of the cycle of victimhood and commit to honoring ourselves. It is the place where we can embrace our feelings and experiences in the moment without judgment. It is a place of pure, non-judgmental awareness.
To reach this place, we must stop complaining and take responsibility for our own healing. We have the tools to extricate ourselves from our suffering, we just need to acknowledge them. We need to face the scared, unhappy, wounded, angry child inside who feels unfairly treated, and help him let go of his wounds.
The Silence of the Heart walks us through a recipe for spiritual healing: 1) accept and feel the pain, 2) admit your mistakes, 3) accept your feelings, 4) bring love to the self, 5) become aware of self-violation, 6) forgive yourself, 7) bring love to the wound, 8) prevent further abuse by always honoring your self (ask for what you want, do not accept what you do not want).
You must always hold onto compassion for yourself.
When we succeed at fully loving and honoring ourselves, then we can apply this to others in our relationships without judging or fixing. We cannot give to others until we first learn to give to ourselves. And by extension, when we learn to give to ourselves, our compassionate natures will cause us to give to others absent judgment.
This is a book that is so full of profound wisdom on such a plethora of relevant topics, you will wear your pencil out from underlining. You will refer back to it again and again, and you will find yourself sharing it and quoting it with friends. Like another reviewer said, it is not always a comfortable read in that it confronts you to take full responsibility for every aspect of your experience and shakes you free from your denial. But it is simultaneously comforting in its unending compassion for the work we all must do. If you are ready to take responsibility for your healing, growth, and ultimate happiness, you will embrace this book.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Exceptional Self Journey, September 17, 2003
This review is from: The Silence of the Heart: Reflections of the Christ Mind - Part II (Paperback)
I just completed this book and did not find this to be a comfortable read, but one that truly stretched my personal limits of self-examination. I found this book to open up areas within me, where I generally gloss over. In some parts of the book I felt that I came face to face with the deepest places of my psyche and for that reason found this to be one of the most important books I have read in my spiritual journey. This is not a book where I found myself polarized or locked into a particular point of view, but one that allowed me to open up and search fearlessly for the sources of my beliefs. Where I could move beyond my judgements, see my own mind at work and feel the center of my being. This book was a journey to and through my heart and soul. I don't know how Paul Ferrini does this, he just has a way of taking me to the places where I can heal myself. He is an amazing author and teacher.
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