Many will find it to be “out there”.
Yet, if you’ve been looking to keep moving forward in your spiritual journey, this might be the book for you.
This book gets praise from a wide range of leaders. From Mother Teresa to Lee Iacocca and Sam Walton.
Flow: 5/5
Actionability: 4/5
Mindset: 5/5
Some of My Highlights:
“There are simply too many documented instances of individuals having intimate acquaintance with information experienced firsthand by remote strangers for us to deny that there are forms of shared knowledge other than those achieve by rational consciousness.”
“If we can understand even one simple thing in depth, we will have greatly expanded our capacity for comprehending the nature of the universe and of life itself.”
“The outer work can never be small if the inner work is great. And the outer work can never be great if the inner work is small.” – Meister Eckhart
“Be kind and forgiving to everything and everyone, including yourself, at all times without exception.”
“This has always been the difficulty of the sage: how to communicate the nonlinear realities that lie beyond the reach of the mind in a way that the mind can understand.”
“To live with care and kindness is all that is necessary.”
“The inadequacy of the answers we receive is a direct consequence of the limitations implicit in the viewpoints of the questioner.”
“..true answers always have the hallmark of simplicity.”
“The difficulty in finding effective means reduces itself, upon examination, to our inability to discriminate the essential from the nonessential.”
“No matter where we start in an examination of human knowledge, we always end up looking at the phenomena of awareness and the nature of human consciousness.”
“Because power is effortless, it goes unseen and unsuspected…. power can be recognized only through inner awareness.”
“Facts are accumulated by effort, but truth reveals itself effortlessly.”
“… the law of sensitive dependence on initial conditions. This refers to the fact that a slight variation over a course of time can have the effect of producing a profound change.”
“…it was Dr. Diamond’s demonstration that the body instantly went weak in response to unhealthy emotional attitudes or mental stresses that had the greatest ongoing clinical influence.”
“By the 500 level, the happiness of others emerges as the essential motivating force.”
“If the hopeless can come to wanting something better (Desire at 125) and then use the energy of Anger at 150 to develop Pride at 175, they may then be able to take the step to Courage…”
“Psychological stress is the net effect of a condition that you are resisting or wish to escape…”
“Gandhi won in this struggle because his position was one of far greater power.”
“The key to joy is unconditional kindness to all of life, including one’s own, which we refer to as compassion.”
“It is very important to remember that the calibration figures do not represent an arithmetic, but a logarithmic, progression.”
“Therefore, an increase of even a few points represents a major advance in power; the rate of increase in power as we move up the scale is therefore enormous.”
“A person may operate on one level in a given area of life and on a quite different level in another area of life.”
“Some Shame-based individuals compensate by perfectionism and rigidity, and often become driven and intolerant.”
“Because it takes energy to rise above Fear, the oppressed are unable to reach a higher level unaided. Thus, the fearful seek strong leaders who appear to have conquered their fear to lead them out of their slavery.”
“This is why Pride feels good only in contrast to the lower levels.”
“Pride remains weak because it can be knocked off its pedestal back into Shame, which is the threat that fires the fear of loss of Pride.”
“The downside of Pride, therefore, is arrogance and denial.”