The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World by

Description: The Book of Forgiving by Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africas Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu , offer a manual on the art of forgiveness--helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and transformation. Tutus role as the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission taught him much about forgiveness. If you asked anyone what they thought was going to happen to South Africa after apartheid, almost universally it was predicted that the country would be devastated by a comprehensive bloodbath. Yet, instead of revenge and retribution, this new nation chose to tread the difficult path of confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Each of us has a deep need to forgive and to be forgiven. After much reflection on the process of forgiveness, Tutu has seen that there are four important steps to healing: Admitting the wrong and acknowledging the harm; Telling ones story and witnessing the anguish; Asking for forgiveness and granting forgiveness; and renewing or releasing the relationship. Forgiveness is hard work. Sometimes it even feels like an impossible task. But it is only through walking this fourfold path that Tutu says we can free ourselves of the endless and unyielding cycle of pain and retribution. The Book of Forgiving is both a touchstone and a tool, offering Tutus wise advice and showing the way to experience forgiveness. Ultimately, forgiving is the only means we have to heal ourselves and our aching world. --Krista Tippett, Host/Executive Producer of On Being FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Back Cover How do I forgive? Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has witnessed some of the worst crimes people can inflict on others. So wherever he goes, he inevitably gets asked this question. This book is his answer. Writing with his daughter, Mpho, an Anglican priest, they lay out the simple but profound truths about the significance of forgiveness, how it works, why everyone needs to know how to grant it and receive it, and why granting forgiveness is the greatest gift we can give to ourselves when we have been wronged. They explain the four-step process of forgiveness--Telling the Story, Naming the Hurt, Granting Forgiveness, and Renewing or Releasing the Relationship--as well as offer meditations, exercises, and prayers to guide the reader along the way. "With each act of forgiveness, whether small or great, we move toward wholeness," they write. "Forgiveness is how we bring peace to ourselves and our world." Author Biography Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Anglican archbishop, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 and served as chair of South Africas Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate apartheid-era crimes. He is currently the chair of The Elders, where he gives vocal defense of human rights and campaigns for the oppressed. Review "A primer for not only finding the path for healing ourselves and the world, but for restoring balance in our biology, mind, and spirit." -- Deepak Chopra, author of What Are You Hungry For?"Includes instructions on how to forgive, as well as scientific and moral reasons to do so. No one is unforgiveable; it takes a moral icon such as Tutu to credibly assert this. . . . This book belongs on nightstands, shelves, and altars everywhere." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"There is no one who embodies the virtue of forgiveness like Desmond Tutu. With this book, he and his daughter take forgiveness out of the realm of mystery and offer a handbook on forgiveness, revealing this most exacting and freeing of human capacities in all its complexity and transformative achievability." -- Krista Tippett, Host/Executive Producer of On Being"What better guides and teachers on forgiveness than Bishop Tutu and his daughter who have lived faithfully through the hardest most demanding days of South Africa! This book meets an urgent need among us, and does so with wisdom, realism, and generosity." -- Walter Brueggemann, author of The Prophetic Imagination"Desmond Tutu shows each of us how to transform our pain and sorrow into hope and confidence in the future. Whether you are the head of a country or the head of a household, you will cherish his words." -- Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize recipient"For decades [Tutu] has been a moral titan--a voice of principle, an unrelenting champion of justice, and a dedicated peacemaker . . . an outspoken voice for freedom and justice in countries across the globe; a staunch defender of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons." -- President Barack Obama"[Tutus] unofficial legacy will be his life and the story of how this tiny pastor with a huge laugh from South Africa became our global guardian." -- TIME"Archbishop Tutu has the ability to see our shared humanity in each person he meets, and to get us to do the same." -- Bill Clinton"Archbishop Desmond Tutu, like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. before him, has offered us a luminous vision of love and hope. With his great warmth and compassion, Archbishop Tutu offers a spiritual message that if heeded can change lives as well as history." -- Jimmy Carter"I have the highest regard for my good and trusted friend Archbishop Desmond Tutu. I admire him for the wonderful, warm person he is and especially for the human principles he upholds." -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama"One thing I have learned from [Tutu] . . . is that he has that constant and persistent faith that things can be better and we can do something about it. We should not find excuses not to act or not to speak out." -- Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001"Desmond Tutu has walked the talk all his adult life. We can all be grateful that, together with his daughter Mpho, he has now shared his secrets for why he has so much hope and joy." -- Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland"I doubt there is anyone on this Earth with a deeper sense of Gods presence and goodness than Archbishop Tutu." -- Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews."[Tutu] was not just an anti-apartheid worker. . . . He was somebody who had thought very deeply about spiritual values and had applied them to what he was doing. In some ways that reminded me of Gandhi." -- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize"Bishop Tutu and his daughter Mpho reveal groundbreaking insights as to how to acknowledge and resolve our lifelong burdens of anguish and pain towards a new paradigm of transformative healing." -- Annie Lennox"I am lost for words to express my appreciation for this book ... Desmond Tutu and his daughter show clearly that suffering, while always painful, need not destroy." -- Terry Waite, CBE Review Quote "What better guides and teachers on forgiveness than Bishop Tutu and his daughter who have lived faithfully through the hardest most demanding days of South Africa! This book meets an urgent need among us, and does so with wisdom, realism, and generosity." Details ISBN0062203576 Author Mpho Tutu Short Title BK OF FORGIVING Pages 240 Publisher HarperOne Language English ISBN-10 0062203576 ISBN-13 9780062203571 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 179.9 Illustrations Yes Residence SA Year 2015 Publication Date 2015-04-07 Imprint HarperOne Subtitle The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World Audience General/Trade Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2015-04-07 NZ Release Date 2015-04-07 US Release Date 2015-04-07 UK Release Date 2015-04-07 Place of Publication New York Imprint US HarperOne Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:92643811;

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