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Summary: More than personal empowerment
Review: For me this book is all about coming to terms with a persons connection to God. Recognizing first that everyone can tap into and use what that offers. The authors personal account of his process of understanding that and to him how everyone can create what he calls miracles is what this book is about.
The phrase personal empowerment is used very often and to me sometimes overused. Usually its in the context of feeling good enough about yourself to make choices that in some way reflect what it is that you feel is true for you. The type of personal empowerment the author asserts is possible through the connection with the Divine puts a whole new spin on the concept.
I found this book to be insightful and very applicable to daily life. Even if you have no spiritual belief's or convictions it could open some doors of perception for you. It helped me recognize that there are Divine gifts constantly available to me in every moment.
This is not a book about religious thoughts. It is a book of unlimited possibilities.
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Summary: Enlightening miracle(s)
Review: I received the book on 7/1/2004 on back order & William Thomas writes a wonderful & fuller exposure of the only 2 Miracles that Neale introduced in "Moments of Grace".I believe his "it" or
"godhead" or
"My God is all" or
"My God is real; all the rest is unreal" or
"Worry is taking control. faith is freedom, freedom from the responsibility of your life, and heart's desires. Anger is not necessary...just faith and love" or
"What you believe...is what you receive". & How to get a miracle "let go, and let God"
"Know that your miracle has already happened"
"FERGEDDABOUTIT"
"Give it up to get it" Although he didn't say as such, he reiterates that there is no such thing as chance or coincidence, since it is where miracles reside. So within the text, I offer William to note that on the page number, where after reading the entire old & new testament a third time, he finally found a "formula" for getting a miracle just for the asking. It is also the page number where he referred for the 1st time to the Conversation with God Trilogy. The page number is who I AM. Furthermore his "Socratic Method" & the end of his narration appeared on 2 of the same number with 100 pages in between. The emphasis of the book is in exposing the various astonishing miracles that happened in his life, starting after his loving wife has committed herself to an institution & psychiatrists practiced assisted-suicide & they tried their damnedest to condemn William to the same fate beside trying to ply away custody of his kids. Only a real miracle and finding trusting "it" saved him. Or rather it was a continuous succession of miracles & fasting/not eating that woke him up on the 18th day's doorbell ring (notice the number which is again the same as the above page number, albeit in different form, like his wonderfully correct chapter 13 on "The Secret of Live" where everything has opposite value & meaning from human here on earth, the number does stand for 'unconditional love', instead of what Christianity has blasphemed it into - based on fear). There are 3 things that I find somewhat missing in his "discovery of god" from my observation and not to be seen as criticism. First, he didn't really balance his miracles with enough examples when he failed to make them appear. E.g. his case of giving his winning lottery ticket away because he worried somebody else deserve it more. This is exactly how I felt when I participated in any lottery since my first raffle in elementary school in Paris. Second, like his friend Neale of the CwG trilogy, they both didn't do God's willing recommendation of being completely transparent to everyone, thus 'sharing totally' their own experience of life. Neale uses the excuse of 'caring' for his ex-spouses privacy in Friendship with God & William seems to be without much sexual desire beside others thinking he may takeover their wives in his time of need among other things. Notice God didn't cut on sex as a lengthy topic in the first 2 CwG. A good counter-example is Ken Keyes Jr. in his autobiographical 'Discovering the Secrets of Happiness' written in 1989 about 'practicing unconditional love', as a quadriplegic for more than 40 years due to polio. I am also curious how come his 3rd wife Penny didn't last & he passed away on 12/20/1995 married to a Lydia according to his obituary? To lead by example, my own experience is that a wonderful young lady, named Lisa, faked being pregnant by me & I bought Lisa a $100k penthouse in Beijing in 2001 in her name. This caused the effect of me really knowing a wonderfully random girl, named Kite, 26 years younger than I & she gave birth to an 8lb. boy, named Imagine after John Lennon's song, almost 2 years ago & her even more innocent younger sister Happy with incredible experience of their own, that's all part of my 'being unconditional love' experience. Naturally together with all these, I do have to thank forever my ex-wife, Annie, for allowing to share her sea-shore house rent-free while she sold her Manhattan loft for more than a million this year. That's true happiness & I know pure bliss too by simply being one with a strand of grass. Third there is an imbalance like Neale's books & too much emphasis on Jesus Christ, as he was elevated in the Koran & he wasn't dumb enough to 'sacrifice' himself by going to the cross as clearly stated in 'The Course in Miracle' dictated by himself & 'The Seth Materials' & 'The Koran'. In reality the truth or faith or unconditional love as in 'love one another' is persistent everywhere. The art of 'letting go' or 'do nothing' or 'let nature takes its course' is espoused by the dead Lao Tze & Buddha 500 years before the 'dead' Jesus & again 2000 years later by the living Werner Erhard of "let go and let God" p.350 CwG3 & few others besides myself. BTW, in Jesus' heart he had no enemy, so the sentence give the other cheek to your enemy is not a quote from Jesus, while 'love your neighbor as your self' is both mentioned in the old & new testament. Naturally your neighbor can be any one, a lover, a murderer & it's not for you to decide but to accept only. The Gospel of Thomas contain true sayings by the mystical Jesus & is closer to unconditional love. Last, not as a judgement but for us to create our own reality when are we going to stop bitching for 'God to help us'?! Instead can we switch to 'us help God' create what was so wonderfully presented in Ch. 13 of William's book as 'The Secret of Life' or unconditional love society? Because that reality is not a promise, it is for us to create heaven on earth by helping God or create hell if you think you live in hell. So you are & so be it, it is each one's choice from free will. As we are ONE & there is ONLY ONE OF US, let true sharing begin ad infinitum...
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