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Summary: One of the Best
Review: A superb, to the point book. Its advice is cogent, wise, and the distillation of many years of practice by an excellent therapist. This book outlines so many of the areas of life we need to take responsibility for in our own personal growth as adults in order to be happy. Of particular value is the emphasis on our need to "self-parent." This book is so densely filled with useful advice that you cannot read more than a page without putting it down to reflect on how applicable it is. It's that good.
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Summary: Outstanding and Highly Recommended
Review: A superb, to the point book. Its advice is cogent, wise, and the distillation of many years of practice by an excellent therapist. This book outlines so many of the areas of life we need to take responsibility for in our own personal growth as adults in order to be happy. Of particular value is the emphasis on our need to "self-parent." This book is so densely filled with useful advice that you cannot read more than a page without putting it down to reflect on how applicable it is. It's that good.
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Summary: A Brilliant Gem
Review: Deceptively short at only 118 pp (my Paulist Press edition, excluding appendices), this book distills universal truths about self-esteem and love into a volume that is profound in its simplicity. Each time I pick it off my shelf to glance though, I am astounded.
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: having read hundreds of psych and spiritual books, this one tops my list. Short, sweet, packed with page after page of nuggets you can contemplate and integrate it offers the best value and wisdom around. read it and re-read it many times. if you truly allow it to sink in and do the work, it will change your life.
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Summary: Thoughts from a professional.
Review: I am a clinical psychologist and am loathe to recommend self-help books as most of them are just ways for the author to make money by tapping into the reader's anxieties about themselves. Most offer superficial and simplistic solutions that offer little more than false hope but will keep the reader "coming back for more" from the self-help industry. NOT SO THIS LITTLE GEM! It is one of the two most solidly written and thought through books on personal growth I know of (the other is The Road Less Travelled, by Scot Peck). It's the kind of book you will need to read slowly and meditatively, perhaps even only a page at a sitting. It's also the kind of book you can expect to benefit from reading through again after a year or two on your shelf.
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Summary: Absolutely inspiring and useful!
Review: I have read many books on relationships and I have been disappointed many times. This book, however, is not one of those. It helps us put not only our relationships but also our lives in perspective and provides us with extremely useful advice about life and relationships. I think I can honestly say that I am a more mature person after working with this book. If you are interested in this topic, you will also like "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato because it is a very fascinating theoretical book on human development and relationships! It provides us with a map of where we are and where we are going in our development and our evolution as living beings. Both of these books are just excellent!
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Summary: best self help book I own
Review: I resonated with this book more that any other. It is exactly what the title says, a no nonsense concise description of what makes up a mature healthy adult psyche. I found it easy to dismiss other less precise, more preachy/cheesy self help books. But when I read this book it just resonated as "truth" and those less functional parts of my psyche had to admit that they had been found out. It's similar to the feeling one gets when reading the Feynman Lecture Series about physics -- they are both masterful distillations.
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Summary: Insightful reflections on maturity and spiritual growth.
Review: One of the best self-help books I have ever encountered. Challanges the reader to new levels of self-discovery and inner peace.
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Summary: Functional and Clear & Concise
Review: Our bookshelf has over fifty self-help genre books I am guessing. I just got this one and it stands out. It's highly readable and offers important principles to live by. Much wisdom in here. Get this book for yourself and pass it around to your friends. We can all learn these lessons.
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Summary: Best book on overcoming Ego I've seen in a while
Review: The idea that the Ego could be overcome without fasting, meditation, or drug use appealed to me. I knew that the Ego was and is an illusion, and that this illusion creates the Shadow, but I didn't know how to go about dispelling the illusion. This book helped a great deal.I give it four stars, rather than five, because it takes a rather dim view about repairing damaged relationships. While this view may be accurate, it lead me to bail out of the best relationship I've ever been in, rather than actually try to solve the problems.
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