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Summary: forgives himself
Review: I have read two other books by Don Miguel Ruiz and have been becoming a better person from them. The use of 'not being hooked' has been the biggest help in dealing with situations. I can't wait to get the latest book, Beyond Fear. I also recommend Rat Race Relaxer: Your Potential & The Maze of Life by JoAnna Carey.
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Summary: The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of
Review: I rated it 3 stars because I felt they reapeated much of what they said in the 4 agreements. I felt that It should have been called apply the 4 agreements to Love instead. If you had not read the 4 agreements. I don't think you would comprehend much of this book. although the words are simple and easy to understand.
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Summary: Stick with his first book
Review: His first book, "The Four Agreements" was so drastically much better than this one. Don't bother.
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Summary: amazing book!
Review: i loved this book a lot. it helped me to change my life!
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Summary: The Mastery of Love
Review: Readign this book helped me to understand the nature of my fear when it came to love and how to look to love from a new and 'honest' perspective. Very enlightening!
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Summary: Mastering the dream of your life.
Review: This is a beautiful and gentle book about experiencing the great being that
you really are. In the course of this self-discovery, Ruiz points out that
we need to become aware of how trained our minds have become to suffering.
Once we recognize where we are using our minds to diminish our sense of
well-being, we have a choice in letting go of destructive behaviors.I particularly enjoyed the chapter called, "The Dream Master." Ruiz
describes our life as a dream. Before we learn to master this dream, we
live in a Dream of Fear that enslaves us in a perpetual cycle of suffering.
To master the dream, we must begin with ourselves - we must be completely
honest with ourselves. When we tell ourselves the truth about what we like
and dislike in our circumstances, we have a choice to follow those things
that feed our happiness and to let go of those things that put us in pain.
As we discover how to see things as they are without getting lost in our
reactions and our minds' interpretations of what we see, we become Dream
Masters. Through awareness of our experience of life, we recover our free
will: "Becoming aware is about being responsible for your own life." In my own experience, I have found awareness to be an inexplicably powerful
tool for living fully and passionately. An excellent book that nurtures
one's ability to live with awareness is "Working on Yourself Doesn't Work"
by Ariel and Shya Kane. The authors' presence in this book is clear,
compassionate, and truly compelling. I recommend it as an excellent
companion to Ruiz's book and wish you well in your self-discovery.
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Summary: A new beginning
Review: Reading this book reminded me of many ideas and beliefs that I already knew but needed to be reminded. This book allowed me to get rid of the drama of life and allow a sense of peace to sit with me. Reading the book was a breath of fresh air and gave me an opening to begin again.
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Summary: Absolutley fantastic insight
Review: I just finished rereading the chapter, "The Man who didn't believe in love" I was stunned after finishing it the first time. I don't want to give the chapter away, but I am so pleased that an author can put into words, without some psycho babble, the very idea that we really need to love ourselves. Of course loving ourselves is so old and cliché, but he somehow hits the high points and brings clarity to it in just a few short pages. I have read self help books for years and this one, you will blast through in one sitting. Grab the coffee, put on your Nora Jones CD and open your mind to this fascinating book.
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Summary: Bottom Line: Love Yourself
Review: I have just summarized the whole book with the title above. Why should you get this book if that is all it has to say? Well, some people don't know this! I didn't. My whole life, I was searching for love, but as Whitney Houston said, "...Learning to love yourself, it is the greatest love of all..." And that is what this book is about. It gives some really interesting analogies and just makes some really enjoyable reading. I know because I read and ate it in only a few hours. It seems like pretty common sense to me now, though. How can you possibly love someone when you don't love yourself? Another point in the book I treasure is how it describes a relationship as a sharing between two people, not a union, not two hearts becoming one. Those kind of analogies only lead to tremendous pain in the future when the relationship turns sour. If we visualize a relationship as two people sharing their life, if that person leaves us one day, he or she can be replaced whereas anything that is part of you cannot be replaced. I must say, this book has dramatically changed my life. I used to feel lonely all the time and now, even when I'm alone, I feel great!
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Summary: The Daily Practice of Enlightenment.
Review: This beautiful book is an honest and courageous exploration of what it takes
to experience being human in all its fullness. While "THE MASTERY OF LOVE"
deals very well with romantic relationships, it encourages the reader to
look at all of one's relationships, especially the one with yourself. Ruiz
describes the process of growing up in and absorbing the habits, thoughts,
and behaviors of one's culture. With great compassion, he points out that
it is quite normal to practice living one's life with a great deal of pain.
"All of our drama and suffering is by practice. We make an agreement with
ourselves, and we practice that agreement until it becomes a whole mastery.
The way we think, the way we feel, and the way we act become so routine that
we no longer need to put our attention on what we are doing. It is just by
action-reaction that we behave a certain way." So none of us is a failure -
we are masters of how we live. This book provides an alternative to living in an endless loop of
self-diminishing behavior. I particularly liked Ruiz' discussion of how a
person in a couple looks to the other to provide happiness and how no matter
how much you love someone, you will never be what that person wants you to
be. With each page, Ruiz guides readers to loving themselves. When you
can truly love yourself, then you can love another and have a successful
relationship. How do you love yourself? Practice being yourself, Ruiz
tells us, without judging yourself. Soon it becomes easier to find your
voice and state your needs. Through practice comes mastery. I find that
this book rings true. It is not a quick fix, but rather an approach to a
way of life. If your heart is telling you to be gentle to yourself and to
practice just being, you'll find another treasure in "WORKING ON YOURSELF
DOESN'T WORK," by Ariel and Shya Kane. Their book is devoted to the practice
of living with excellence through awareness of one's moment-to-moment
experience. Living a life you love just takes practice, and good coaches
like these authors make a huge difference in how well you succeed.
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