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Summary: Note to self...
Review: ...Ask for a refund. This book is vacuous.
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Summary: A Massage for the Soul
Review: A friend introduced me to this little gem as a teenager nearly twenty years ago, and I've returned to it often over the years in times of stress. The piercing clarity and brutal honesty of these simple, yet profound, observations slows my racing thoughts and magically puts things into perspective. So find a quiet place, set aside an hour or two, and let Hugh Prather show you how to live in the moment and rid yourself of that insatiable craving for external validation. You won't regret it.
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Summary: A Massage for the Soul
Review: A friend introduced me to this little gem as a teenager nearly twenty years ago, and I've returned to it often over the years in times of stress. The piercing clarity and brutal honesty of these simple, yet profound, observations slows my racing thoughts and magically puts things into perspective. So find a quiet place, set aside an hour or two, and let Hugh Prather show you how to live in the moment and rid yourself of that insatiable craving for external validation. You won't regret it.
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Summary: Notes to Myself ; Knowing onself
Review: Hugh Prather says,
Love, the magician, knows this little trick
whereby two people walk in different directions
yet always remain side by side.
When you know that the person u love can never be yours, u know what being miserably heart broken means. But the way Hugh Prather puts it in the above sentences , u gain more capacity to love. That is how this book teaches you to live. Looking at the worst part of the life with brightest perspective and making the precious life happy, beautiful and memorable each and every moment.
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Summary: It's all in the (completely botched) presentation.
Review: Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself (Real People Press, 1970)Ouch. This was an ugly experience. The worst part is, it didn't HAVE to be an ugly experience. Yet more evidence that, yes, it's all in the presentation. Notes to Myself is a collection of observations and thoughts from Prather's journals. They range from the surprisingly insightful ("The principle seems to be: it is a fault if I am capable of it, a disease if I am not.") to the charmingly naïve ("What is the difference between `I want food' and `I want sex'? Consent.") and just about everywhere in between. And had they been presented as prose journal entries (in other words, as they were no doubt written), this could have been a small surprise, a bit of a self-help book that doesn't try to batter the reader over the head with stupid jargon. Instead, however, it is presented as poetry, and in this presentation it becomes a marvel of offense. You know how magazine editors are constantly decrying submissions that are "prose chopped up into short lines?" Well, Notes to myself is the epitome of prose chopped up into short lines. It's literally prose chopped up into short lines. (If Prather's journal actually contains this stuff in poetic form, that makes it even more monstrous.) The material in here, while workable prose, violates every possible rule of poetry one can conceive. No thought at all went into the line breaks, the word choice, the image (what very little here is presented as image in the first place!), the diction, anything. It's obvious thought and reflection went into the material, but one of the main differences between poetry and prose is that the presentation of the material is far more important in poetry than it is in prose. In fact, the presentation is more important than the material itself, something Prather (or his editor, blame whichever you like) obviously didn't grasp. In other words, the material gets three stars, the presentation gets zero (and would get negative stars if I gave such things out), leading to an average of * ½.
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Summary: 14c is too much
Review: I agree with the reviewers that thought this book a waste of time and money. I see that it is being sold used for 14 cents. I wouldn't pay half that.
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Summary: It missed the mark!
Review: I know this is an extremely popular book and has sold millions, but I found myself falling asleep every time I tried to read it.
It is not what I expected at all!
This is another one of the book which I bought here and re-sold within a few weeks!
It is full of hippy rhetoric crap.
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Summary: radical thoughts on paper
Review: i love this type of book. any book that has random thoughts on the abstract things of life that nobody ever wants to talk... think about. it's a great book to read and i recommend it to anyone who is interested in this kind of stuff.
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Summary: Life-long meditation
Review: I received this book when I was 18 from my best friend. I recently lent it out and never received it back. I am now 33 and a single working mother of five wonderful children. This book, along with "The Quiet Answer", provides my solitude, my motivation, and my inner peace. When the world is falling apart, I seek Hugh Prather's words of wisdom to guide me into his peacefullness. Thank you for such a beautiful work of art.
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Summary: " .... on you "
Review: I was 15 when I first read " notes to myself " , today I am 21. But I still find it reassuring and insightful every time I brisk through the pages . This is a book on every person , there are moments when you will agree and say to yourself " these are my thoughts " , and other times when you will disagree and have a heated mental debate with yourself. It's easy to read and what is particularly appealling is that it feels like a conversation . Since it's very personal , it creates a connection which makes you believe that YOU had a hand in writing this book . Maybe , when you read it first , you'll enjoy it just for the book that it is . But it's when you pick it up again and again that you realise how much this book is You and Life .
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