This book I borrowed from my friend after I saw it in his room. I wanted to read it as soon as I saw it because it was laying in the room of a man who does not read, so it must have been something very special for him to have brought it home.
This is a quick read, but you get so much out of it in the short amount of time it takes to get through it. It’s both religious and spiritual, insightful and helpful, particularly for those who take the time to consider the hypothetical scenarios and perform the exercises at the end of each chapter. It’s also philosophical, you question the methods as you are reading about them, you wonder if the practices as described by the author would actually help you. I found myself interested in trying some of the exercises but also doubting the usefulness of others for me personally. Perhaps I doubted some of the practices because I am in a very negative mood right now, there is not a lot in my life that is going well at the moment. There were a lot of ideas that I did not see as being useful for me in the present or in the future. Perhaps I should come back to this book when I am in a more positive place and reassess the contents within, although I feel like that is opposite of the point the book is trying to make. It gives the impression that you need to love yourself at your worst or you will be unable to love yourself at your best although the message is much deeper than that. I think, in the end, I can probably take a few of the ideas here and find a way to use them to help myself.
Nonfiction and Nonsense 