The Line

By Al Lampell

Al Lampells marriage of twenty-five years was coming apart when a book practically fell into his hands that changed everything.

Love Is Letting Go of Fear, written by Gerald Jampolsky, soon became his constant companion and life preserver, helping him where conventional therapy and guidance had failed. It also led him to become a teacher of A Course in Miracles.

In this guide, he shares some of the powerful lessons hes learned that have helped him find peace, love, and bliss.

One of the keys to changing your life, he says, is changing your thoughts, your habits. For example, if you want to stop smoking cigarettes, it is simplejust dont put a cigarette in your mouth. It is simple but not easy, because you have to create a nonsmoking habityou have to reprogram yourself.

He also highlights the critical importance of awareness, willingness, and vigilance as the method to use to develop new habits or replace habits you wish to change.

Stop being a willing victim, practice conscious communication, and take the simple steps you need to make your dreams a reality with the lessons in The Line.

What I learned in Als class over twenty years ago has become part of my unconscious thinking process. I am so grateful for him and what he taught meIrena Hefner

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: May 16, 2018
• ISBN: 9781982203511

Al Lampell

Al Lampell, a native of Brooklyn, New York, retired after forty-three years as an engineer. He founded Conscious Communications in 2002. He enjoys walking, biking, yoga, dancing, and volunteering to help the homeless and others. He lives in Silicon Valley, California.

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-0352-8 (sc)

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-0351-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018905375

Balboa Press rev. date: 05/15/2018

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

How things are designed

The Three-Legged Stool

The Line

The willing victim

Practicing Conscious Communication

God

God’s Creation

Love

Communication

Truth

Core Concepts

In Summary

Road markers as you climb the ladder

Meditation

Caution

Acknowledgements

I wish to acknowledge my family, my friends, fellow students of ACIM, Life Moves shelters (staff and residents) for their support in helping me gather the material and guidance for this book Special thanks to my son Mike Lampell for his technical support and Selena Zhang for her original cover art work

Preface

T here are a number of reasons this book is appearing now. About thirty-two years ago, I went through an extremely painful experience. My marriage of approximately twenty-five years was dissolving, and I was in more pain than I thought I could handle. I looked to conventional therapy and guidance from my religion, but nothing seemed to help. One day while I was in a bookstore, a book kind of fell off the shelf and into my hands. It was full of simple cartoon-like pictures, and each picture had a quote from a book that I later determined was A Course In Miracles . This little book was called Love Is Letting Go of Fear , and it was written by Gerald Jampolsky. I purchased this book, and it soon became my constant companion, my life