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Summary: excellent
Review: I just want to congratulate Mr. John Gray for coming out with another superb book! I wish he could come here in our country to conduct a seminar
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Summary: Correction
Review: The review written by franktaylor is not based on the CD, but on the book itself. Thank you for correcting your note.
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Summary: Is This Book A Joke?
Review: Love vitamins? Love tanks?? LOVE TANKS !?! Oh, please... I am so glad I borrowed this book from the library. They can have it back.
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Summary: Oh my God....
Review: Do yourself a favor. Pick a different book
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Summary: How To Be Happy All The Time (Goody Gumdrops)
Review: John Gray is no dummy, but he sure knows how to get the money. I was forced to read this book because I was told (and had to agree) that I couldn't be negative without giving it more than a cursory read. What agony I endured. One long drawn out, repetitious pep talk that builds you up until the game is over. Fine as long as you're winning. But not helpful long-range or for those who know happiness is more than a warm puppy.
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Summary: A rule for choosing self-help books
Review: Here's a general rule to follow in selecting self-help books: Never read one with the author's picture on the front cover. It's a sure sign that the only self he's interested in helping is his own.
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Summary: You may get want you want
Review: It's hard to beat W. V. O. Quine when trying to make out the human condition, but John Gray does a good job of it. I never realized, as John points out, that what you achieve in life depends on whether or not you serve Martha Stewart's hors d'oeuvres at cocktail parties you host. And aside from his cogent argument on the need for American society to legalize peyote and marijuana, I think he does an outstanding job explaining the ins and outs of running an automatic carwash business from your own home! Men are from Mars and women from Venus, but John Gray's book is from the planet Zircon. True, it is perplexing that we are creatures with subjective, first person points of view who are trying diligently to negotiate our way through an impersonal, objective reality (made up all sorts of subatomic particles and widgets), but that doesn't mean you shouldn't get what you want out of life. You should have it all. And John Gray makes it very clear that you can, but only if you buy the sequel to this book, which should be coming out very soon. His weak point is what he has to say about meditation: I agree it focuses the mind, but I do not think it can be used to transmit messages to your bank president to shift funds into your bank account. It is based on an ancient Tibetan technique of attaching a digital cell phone to your forehead with masking tape and using this device to send brainwaves out. I've tried this technique several times now, but the only response I get are Jehovah's Witnesses showing up at my doorstep saying, "You called?" Still, if your mind is just foggy from too much haldol, it might make a big difference to your world outlook. And if it doesn't do the trick, you can just toss it aside and dive back into Martha's book to cook up some tasty snacks that'll make you forget about wanting to get anything else in life. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Excellent tool for integrated lifestyle.
Review: John Gray provides an excellent tool for helping people understand the value in leading a three-dimensional, integrated lifestyle--mind, body and spirit. He does well in helping us realize that success and happiness are not necessarily related. Gray tends to mingle the two terms, but the reader is able to infer that success is an objective measure while happiness is subjective. He could bring more clarity to the fact that success--i.e, where you stand in relation to a particular goal--is measured on one scale and happiness--how you feel about where you stand--is on another scale, thus the two may or may not be related. His view that a dual pursuit of money and inner peace are compatible are somewhat troublesome in that we are not perfect people living in a perfect world. Jesus, himself, cautions against this strategy.Nevertheless, the elements of building a full, integrated life are carefully laid out with the Four Step approach. Gray supports each of these steps in subsequent chapters, especially as he gives us the critical needs that must be met before we can be whole people. His section on meditation is particularly helpful, not only in emphasizing its outcomes but in actually telling us how to achieve the results meditation can produce. I like the book and the author's very personal style. It is more like a conversation than a read.
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Summary: Delivers again.
Review: Mr Gray delivers a great book with vital information again. Few books get me excited, but this book and 'Life and Death on the Internet' by Keith A Schroeder get my blood moving. Probably the two best books of the last year.
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Summary: A great book to know our capabilites to create what we want
Review: This book is an advanced level of thoughts. To appreciate the ideas in this book, a strong grounding on the true nature of human being, as an affluent, unbounded, abundant creator is important. Without that basic knowledge about us, many will completely miss the essence of this book. There are many ways to lay the ground work for this understanding. But my suggestion: Read Deepak Chopra's (I am not his publicist!) book or hear his audio casette, "Creating Affluence in the Field of All Possibilites" once everyday, repeat everyday, for atleast, say, 100 days. Then you will benefit a lot from this book.
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