The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life
Author: Nathaniel Branden
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ISBN: 0684838494
Publisher: Fireside (June, 1999)
Sales Rank: 82,090
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
The master key to a life of considerable joy
Nathaniel Branden has finally written the One Book I Would Take With Me to a Desert Island If I Could Have Only One Book. I must consider this book his absolute masterpiece. It was only on my second reading that the power of the book really hit home. I wasn't prepared for the truth and beauty of it the first time I read it. I just wasn't prepared. I'd so clouded up my own intellectual history with spirituality and escapist self-help (a true contradiction in intentions). I dip into any page now and come out cleaned and bright and ready to use the power of my mind. I do the sentence completions and feel my center grow stronger every day. This one book may be the greatest single gift psychology has ever given to humanity.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Understanding this will cause you to reflect
If you have a pulse, can read, and understand this book can cause you to reflect more consciously about the everyday things that you do in your life than you may have in a long time. If you can withstand that, then doing Nathaniel Branden's exercises which he presents throughout the book will push the envelope even further. He doesn't settle for feel-good platitudes, but the medicines he offers can open us up to possibilities that we have previously not seen through the haze of unconscious behavior and thinking. I have become extremely jaded by a lot of the feel-good new-agey speak that has become closely identified in my mind with "self-esteem" and these days. Initially that association caused me to hesitate in buying this book. To the contrary, and to my relief I found Branden's message free from that kind of shallowness. If you merely seek self-flattery Branden offers none. On a personal note, in this book Branden even succeeded in rehabilitating the word "spirituality" for this once self-identified "atheist" who still occasionally refers to himself as a "secular humanist." On the whole his message proved very accessible, and I even found myself eager to reread it after getting through it the first time.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Almost as good as Six Pillars...
Okay,so I have a bit of hero worship and father figure identification with Dr. Branden so maybe my review is not the most objective but I want to express a great deal of gratitude to him.This is a fine book and I am in my first rereading of it.I think it is one of those kind of books where there is more to reflect on with each reading and more to learn.I still think "The Six Pillars of Self Esteem" is his masterwork but well maybe it's "The Disowned Self", no wait maybe it's "The Psychology of Self Esteem". The point is, buy this book and all the others if you would like to illuminate your path.(and do the sentence stems, they make a difference) Similar Products
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