Zero Limits Book Review

by Gregory Allen Butler

The last few days I have been reading through Zero Limits, the latest book by Joe Vitale, written with Ihaleakala Hew Len, PhD. The seed that brought this book into fruition was Joe Vitale hearing the story of Dr. Len curing a whole hospital ward of the criminally insane in Hawaii without even seeing the patients. He did it by looking at their files and saying, "I’m sorry; I love you."

Those few words, "I’m sorry; I love you" are a way for Dr. Len to cleanse the past memories from his mind and allow Divinity to flow through him. The book examines how he does that.

I like this book. Vitale states that much of what passes for traditional personal development are just toys of the mind, toys that work some of the time but not all of the time. Whenever he asks people who use these traditional methods "Why not all the time?" they never have an answer.

But Vitale has an answer, and it is the same as mine. It is basically the same thing I have been writing since I started this site in 2006 -- the mind is limited. If you want to transcend limits, you need to go to the unlimited. Hence the title of his book, Zero Limits.

Zero Limits is a book about taking total responsibility for everything and everyone in your life. Unlike most approaches to personal development, the approach outlined takes in the whole picture. It is an approach based on wholeness. It is based on love and connecting and surrendering to the Divine. It is a very mystical approach to life, and for that, I am grateful.

The idea behind Zero Limits is to wipe your mind’s slate clean and start over without any preconceived notions. This involves the removal of memories -- mental impressions -- that are barriers to pure self. This is the mystical path. This is what the great spiritual masters do with their disciples. This is what poet and Perfect Master Rumi pointed to in his poetry when he said "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." This is what Meher Baba was pointing to when he said, "Being is dying by loving."

Zero Limits is a book about being, dying, and loving. It’s a book about putting a death to the false self and all the false notions of who you are. It’s a book about love, because it is through love that this false self dies. This leads to a discovery of "Being" that is pure essence, infinite love, power, knowledge, and bliss.

When this state of being is discovered within (underneath all the accumulated layers of impressions deposited onto the mind since the beginning of time) then it becomes as effortless to love everybody as it is for the sun to shine on everybody.

Zero Limits is based on the Hawaiian mystical path of Ho’oponopono. It is "a process of letting go of toxic energies within you to allow the impact of Divine thoughts, words, deeds, and actions."

Dr. Len says that there are two ways we can live our lives: From memories or from inspiration. The memories represent the mind’s programming. Its fears, phobias, prejudices, pain and sense of limitation. This creates the distorted lens that most people view the world through.

On the other hand, when we live our lives through inspiration, it allows the Divine to flow through us. It is living, as Dr. Len frequently says, a life of peace that surpasses all understanding. This is the only way to get beyond the fragmented way of life that the masses of humanity live. Or to quote Henry David Thourau: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

This is a book that stresses taking responsibility for everything and everyone in your life. It’s a book about going within and cleaning the obstructions of past memories so that the Divine can manifest and heal. It’s a book about saying yes to life, about saying "I love you" to everyone in your life, including yourself, and experiencing the infinity, beyond all limits and understanding, that life has to offer.

I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a way to connect to the divine. It’s simple, elegant and timeless.

As you journey through the book, may you find the peace that surpasses all understanding.