Soul Without Shame

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Summary: Constantly useful!
Review: 25 years ago I began a journey. It began with an extremely useful book entitled "A New Guide to Rational Living" by Ellis and Harper. During the intervening years, I've read dozens of books, all of them varying between mildly interesting and useless. This outstanding example of a true and simple understanding of the perception of the world is a real find. I expect to delve into more books along this method of work, with this as a truly profound primer.

Rating:
Summary: Constantly useful!
Review: 25 years ago I began a journey. It began with an extremely useful book entitled "A New Guide to Rational Living" by Ellis and Harper. During the intervening years, I've read dozens of books, all of them varying between mildly interesting and useless. This outstanding example of a true and simple understanding of the perception of the world is a real find. I expect to delve into more books along this method of work, with this as a truly profound primer.

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Summary: Excellent Book on how to deal with the inner critic!!
Review: Brown does a superb job of illustrating the different levels of "attack" our "inner critic" performs on us daily. Very easy to read and to follow its concepts. Great examples and excercises to apply concepts.

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Summary: This book is fabulous -- a must read!
Review: I love this book! It's one of the best books I've ever read. For me it's in the same category as Fromm's Art of Loving and Buber's I and Thou--that is a book that makes such an impression that you don't forget it for decades. Soul Without Shame is well written, deeply thought provoking, and practical. I found myself making use of ideas from the book before I finished reading it. The exercises and practices at the end of each chapter are very worthwhile. Chapter 8 (Engaging the Judge) and Chapter 12 (Why Judge?)were chapters that resonated for me. I strongly recommend this book to people who are interested in becoming more aware of their own thought patterns and for those trying to quiet the inner critic so they can express their creativity.

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Summary: worth it
Review: It seems like a repeat of so many topics that speak about mindfulness. If you've read a few books on Zen and mindfulness, then you're probably easily bored with new authors finding new ways to say, "pay attention!" This book steps away from the rest by using the ideas of Almaas and essence. This is a very useful book to read slowly and repeatedly. It does not contain any miracle methods for killing the superego, but it has lots of simple and useful exercises to explore the depth of your judge.
I especially recommend this book to shy people.

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Summary: The most sophisticated book I've read on this topic.
Review: This book provides incredibly detailed information on the workings of the inner critic, and helps build awareness and a solid skill set for disarming it. It is very well organized; each chapter introduces a topic and then gives you exercises to work with the material. It had a very powerful impact on me, equivalent to a week-long spiritual retreat.