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Summary: One of the best books you could ever read
Review: Once in a long while, amid the untold millions of merely clever, ingenious, entertaining, new, or unique books the world has written for any of its lesser reasons, you will find one that is piercingly and profoundly true, written only for truth's sake. This is such a book. While simple, it is anything but simplistic. Careful reading combined with honest self-reflection and genuine efforts to be good will not just uncover many important issues, it will uncover THE issue. This book is no new revelation on the nature of man and his morality, but it reasons upon truths the rational will see as self-evident, the religious will recognize from scripture, and the empirically-minded will perceive in the honest assessment own their own experience. Any serious attempt to explain human nature that does not incorporate the truths discussed in this book risks being fundamentally flawed and is assured to be incomplete. I wholeheartedly recommend to you this book.
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Summary: Actually Bob Woodbury's review not Karen!
Review: Outside of scripture this is the most important and profound book I've read. Nearly every page adds insight to relationships and self.
I was shocked when I got to the chapter dealing with self-victimization and saw myself described in the pages of the book! I have changed how I relate to my spouse, my feelings towards her and my communication with her.
The chapter on collusion has me thinking and trying more to improve relations and feelings with my son. My point of view has changed with regards to all my children. I have never felt more motivation to improve relationships with all my family as well as others.
After one read, there is much I don't understand intrinsically about all the concepts taught, but my intent is to read, think and act until I do understand. My life has changed direction, I will continue on the path to emotional freedom as described by the author.
I intend to gift a copy of this book to everyone near and dear to me in hopes they will read and have an epiphany of their own.
If you are wondering if you should read this book, stop. Order it, read and prepare for a fundamental change in your outlook on relationships and self.
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Summary: Actually Bob Woodbury's review not Karen!
Review: Outside of scripture this is the most important and profound book I've read. Nearly every page adds insight to relationships and self.
I was shocked when I got to the chapter dealing with self-victimization and saw myself described in the pages of the book! I have changed how I relate to my spouse, my feelings towards her and my communication with her.
The chapter on collusion has me thinking and trying more to improve relations and feelings with my son. My point of view has changed with regards to all my children. I have never felt more motivation to improve relationships with all my family as well as others.
After one read, there is much I don't understand intrinsically about all the concepts taught, but my intent is to read, think and act until I do understand. My life has changed direction, I will continue on the path to emotional freedom as described by the author.
I intend to gift a copy of this book to everyone near and dear to me in hopes they will read and have an epiphany of their own.
If you are wondering if you should read this book, stop. Order it, read and prepare for a fundamental change in your outlook on relationships and self.
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Summary: Am I in the wrong?
Review: Perhaps the most compelling question Warner asks us to take up in this book is: Am I in the wrong? In a world where war comes before political leaders admit their own faults and where 50% of marriages end in divorce, often because partners can only see the problems with their spouse this question could have powerful effects. I believe Warner has chosen his title carefully using the word "free," which is so loaded today. Being "free" today has been confused with being able to choose between 10 brands of VCR or do whatever you want with no thought of the consequences. What Warner advocates is a real freedom, freedom from your human self and its weaknesses. Warner's book will not ensure you won't make bad decisions but it will teach you about the courage to admit when you are in wrong and how to change for the better. That is real freedom.
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Summary: Am I in the wrong?
Review: Perhaps the most compelling question Warner asks us to take up in this book is: Am I in the wrong? In a world where war comes before political leaders admit their own faults and where 50% of marriages end in divorce, often because partners can only see the problems with their spouse this question could have powerful effects. I believe Warner has chosen his title carefully using the word "free," which is so loaded today. Being "free" today has been confused with being able to choose between 10 brands of VCR or do whatever you want with no thought of the consequences. What Warner advocates is a real freedom, freedom from your human self and its weaknesses. Warner's book will not ensure you won't make bad decisions but it will teach you about the courage to admit when you are in wrong and how to change for the better. That is real freedom.
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Summary: The puzzle pieces fit.
Review: Seldom does a book help the missing puzzle pieces fit better than the Bonds That Make Us Free. I think because all of us are effected by "self decption" to one degree or another this book is very powerful. This book helped me understand the truth of the power of love and forgiveness. A must read for everyone.
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Summary: Life changing!
Review: Terry Warner goes to the core of how to heal broken relationships and enrich true relationships. When our relationships are true, we are free to love deeper than ever before: no more manipulations, no more selfish half-truths, no more escalating cycles of hate... The message is simple: be true to yourself and others. You know deep down what is true. And when you are true to yourself, you are freed from destructive cycles of deception. You are free to give to others without strings attached. His examples bring this message to life. They are simple, true stories from real people who discovered how they were deceiving themselves and who then learned how to be true to themselves and others. This book shows how to break free from destructive cycles. It teaches how to heal relationships. It reveals how to see things as they really are. This book has changed my life. I have personally seen it repair marriages, heal families, and save friendships.
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Summary: For the ADDICT
Review: Terry Warner's book points the way for the addict to heal as well as any sectarian book can. But it takes patience, courage, honesty and experimentation within the laboratory that life provides among one's own family, friends and fellow humans, and within a lifetime of the pursuit of freedom from bondage. But don't despair, the joy is in the progress, and the progress is in being able to forget yourself and where you are on the continuum of freedom from bondage. Pray for me. I'll pray for you. --an addict
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Summary: Healing
Review: The author in this book wants to show that the reason our relationships with other people fail is because of our own often misguided perception their actions. He offers a more responsible way to view our interpersonal relationships by being more open to alternative reasons to analyze the behavior of our loved ones. But the analysis is centered on your own personal transformation and reception to the objective truth which should compel you to behave as you ought, or should. Rather than to influence another's behavior. He offers ways in which to do so.
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Summary: A new life
Review: The first part of "Bonds that Make Us Free" is a little painful to read because of the growth that takes place when the principles taught in this book are understood and applied. If growth is your goal this book was made for you. Buy this book!!!
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