This is a great book. Since I don’t understand it yet really, instead of talking about it directly or semi-directly, I’m just going to talk about why I read it and why I actually decided to keep my paper copy after giving away some of the other paper Deepak books I had, as a priorities thing.

As an all-genres, no-boundaries guy, it’s really hard to get all of Deepak, (especially since some of his books fall through the cracks of the bestseller lists, despite putting a respectable amount of his work up there), not unlike how it’s hard to “get” experientially (despite it being easily to get physically) all of the classic writer Billy S., who wrote in all genres contemporary to himself. Which is probably why the critics have to get ahold of him and mentally change everything, you know; the standard critic has to say that the tragedies are the ‘real thing’, (or possibly the sonnets, but they’re abstract, not operatic, you know), because they’re not interested in things working out and people being happy; it doesn’t spin their wheels. And obviously it has to be kept as standardized as they can manage it, you know; you don’t up and let people have any opinion that’s theirs any more than you let Billy be Billy and let him get around with different sorts of people. Which, really, if we’re honest, we don’t let him do—we don’t even let the /dead/ do /that/, and people changing the world today are twice as bad and thrice as damned, and that’s just for starters. (Wait until we ask the conservatives; we haven’t even gotten to them yet!)

But anyway, instead of trying to keep all the paper Deepak I could get that’s not available digitally, I decided to let go of, say, the Merlin novel, instead of keeping it to read again and possibly mull over and think over the mystery of reincarnation or whatever that book was about—and even though it was written very well, at what it was designed to be….. It’s just that sometimes putting your life on a solid, practical basis is the right way to “understand” the secret of death, the secret of reincarnation: you’ll get all your money back when it comes time for the next life, assuming that that’s what’s best for you, and that you acted the right way. But if you just “act the right way” but in a passive, negative, or otherwise financially anemic way, even if you don’t get cursed or whatever, you’ll probably get back what help you gave to others, which is probably not much, right…. (angry person) —But although I don’t know about my own life, I know that Things Are Bad!!! ~ (laughs) Yes, and that’s not to say that there isn’t that other element, that element of inclusion and the social element, which is part of everyone’s life: and some people’s lives, /especially/ so…. But sometimes people just think that they ought to be put in charge of other people’s lives, as compensation for not wanting to live their own…. “It’s okay to be angry about capitalism”, but only if you don’t mind taking your energy and using it on something other than achieving your goals…. “My goal is that my parent stops drinking.” And my goal is that you go to an Alateen meeting. 😸 “Hey!!”…. Which isn’t to say, that it isn’t at least marginally better, potentially, at least, to be angry that the collective world isn’t what it should be yet, than to be angry that the collective world isn’t anymore, what it never was—a corpse perfectly preserved in stasis….

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it is good

When I read this book years ago, I found it be astonishing one of my favorites I like and have read countless books and have written my own book but I always have this on hand ( )

Great one for spiritual development

Less (in such a short book), yet a lot in what you get, learn, realize on your success journey. This 1hr reading can change you a lot. ( )