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by Donna Carter
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (2007-08-01)
ISBN: 0736920390
EAN: 9780736920391
Dewy Decimal #: 248.843
Paperback: 160 pages
SKU: 091308023
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...light shelf wear on cover
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Gifted communicator Donna Carter believes the choices we make today define the quality of our lives tomorrow. With enthusiasm and encouragement, she helps readers discern their priorities─how they want to live and what they want to accomplish─and then helps them use these choices to build lives filled with excitement, fulfillment, and joy. Women will discover practical ways to... - keep their connections to people strong and encouraging
- decrease stress and accomplish more through organization
- develop and maintain an upbeat, biblical self–image
- stay positive when problems and disagreements occur
- forgive when wounded
As women make positive changes in their lives, they’ll have more time and energy to focus on what truly makes life worth living─serving and worshiping God, loving family members, spending time with friends, helping others, overcoming trials, and achieving their dreams.
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by Donna Carter
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (2007-08-01)
ISBN: 0736920390
EAN: 9780736920391
Dewy Decimal #: 248.843
Paperback: 160 pages
SKU: 091308023
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...light shelf wear on cover
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Gifted communicator Donna Carter believes the choices we make today define the quality of our lives tomorrow. With enthusiasm and encouragement, she helps readers discern their priorities─how they want to live and what they want to accomplish─and then helps them use these choices to build lives filled with excitement, fulfillment, and joy. Women will discover practical ways to... - keep their connections to people strong and encouraging
- decrease stress and accomplish more through organization
- develop and maintain an upbeat, biblical self–image
- stay positive when problems and disagreements occur
- forgive when wounded
As women make positive changes in their lives, they’ll have more time and energy to focus on what truly makes life worth living─serving and worshiping God, loving family members, spending time with friends, helping others, overcoming trials, and achieving their dreams.
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by David Niven
Product Group: Book
Publisher: HarperOne (2006-11-07)
ISBN: 0061157910
EAN: 9780061157912
Dewy Decimal #: 158
Paperback: 208 pages
Release Date: 2006-11-07
SKU: 102608041
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...hardcover...minor wear on cover
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Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating what makes people happy. But hidden in obscure scholarly journals and reports, their research is all too often inaccessible to ordinary people. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series distills the scientific findings of over a thousand of the most important studies on happiness into easy-to-digest nuggets of advice. Each of the hundred practices is illustrated with a clear example and illuminated by a straightforward explanation of the science behind it to show you how to transform a ho-hum existence into a full and happy life. - Believe in yourself: Across all ages, and all groups, a solid belief in one's own abilities increases life satisfaction by about 40 percent, and makes us happier both in our home lives and in our work lives.
- Turn off your TV: Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.
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Loved it and shared it with many!!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-03-09
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I loved this book so much that I purchased several copies and sent to friends. Another reviewer mentioned that the book was superficial; of course each piece of advice was brief, that was his intent! The book is meant to be a non-tedious read.
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Thoroughly enjoyable book about being Happy
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-02-16
I enjoyed reading this book so much that I ended up seeking out other books by this author. It's not just a book filled with "feel-good" advice, but the ideas are backed by research studies that prove the ideas work.
This is one of those books that you can read from cover to cover, or just read little bits and pieces whenever you want. Each of the 100 "secrets" in the book is explained in a page or two. There is a quick two or three sentence summary of the secret, followed by more information or an illustrative example, and concluded with the statistics or study that backs up the idea.
The ideas were definitely things I could put to good use. Some were things I already knew (although it was nice to see them backed by research studies) and others were ideas that I hadn't really thought about before. Some of the secrets include:
Exercise
Volunteer
Pay Attention. You may have what you want.
Try to think less about the people and things that bother you.
Friendship beats money
Accept yourself - unconditionally
I found this book to be a fun and positive read while providing great tips that can easily be put to use. I'd recommend this to any reader - and it would make a wonderful gift!
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Great reminders in stressful times!
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-10-11
I highly recommend this book to everyonde who's planning a wedding right now -- whether you're the bride, groom, parent, bridal party member. As the stress increases during the wedding plans, this great little book will remind you of the insights to happiness. It's a light, easy read that you'll revisit again and again.
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100 Simple Secrets of Happy People, The
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-05-17
What a fun book! I went to a conference where the speaker referred to this book. Some suggestions are already a part of my habits, but there are some real gems that are new. Get this book and get happy!!
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this book helps
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-04-07
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
just buy it, it does help. i suggest highlight the words that you think can really help you. the words that struck you will help you. just buy it, it helps damn it
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by Eckhart Tolle
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Dutton Adult (2005-10-11)
ISBN: 0525948023
EAN: 9780525948025
Dewy Decimal #: 204.4
Hardcover: 315 pages
SKU: 112108005
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: exlibrary copy in good condition with the usual markings and stickers
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Building on the astonishing success of The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity. Tolle tells us there is good news, however. There is an alternative to this potentially dire situation. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one. In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly are—which is something infinitely greater than anything we currently think we are—and learn to live and breathe freely.
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Transformational
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-11-21
This moving and transformational books offers real-life, concrete solutions to managing the stress of modern living. Where traditional therapy ends (understanding the "why" behind our misery) Mr. Tolle's book and mindfulness begin, by teaching the "how". How to find meaning in the present moment. How to stop looking for happiness in external things. How to learn to appreciate the true self and live a life of intention and kindness. Mr. Tolle gives the reader a wonderful introduction to Buddhist and mindfulness principals, and he also shows how all the major religions are more alike than they are different. His book is an inclusive, welcoming, and loving invitation to change the lens through which you see yourself and life. Highly recommended.
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Incredibly important Contribution to the world
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-11-20
The time of awakening has come. I have felt the shift, and for every ego that is weakened, the world will become a better place. This is a critical read for anyone searching for happiness.
Mark Meincke
Author:
Why not Me? The keys to unlock your power and release your potential
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Old News, Not a New Earth
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-11-20
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Tolle, supposedly a humble person, considers himself enlightened enough to tell everyone else how to be enlightened. He even says that if the Buddha didn't agree with him, Buddha would be wrong.
There is no evidence in the book that Tolle is enlightened at all. I studied and learned all this stuff back in the late 70s and the 80s; Tolle is merely throwing up a mish-mash of Buddhist-New Age thinking that he swallowed years ago.
It's sad that people think this spiritual wisdom when, in fact, it's full of inherent contradictions and self-refuting statements.
Tolle makes an amazing statement when he says that "at the heart of the new consciousness lies the transcendence of thought, the newfound ability of rising above thought" and we will no longer "derive [your] identity" from the "incessant stream of thinking."
And yet, what is this but a thought?! What is this whole book, but words and thinking? He also downgrades words to mere sounds, but of course, his book is in words!
Go figure!
Tolle needs to go back to the drawing board and get basic logic right before he claims to be enlightened.
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Wonderful Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-11-19
Although it calls upon thought to counteract thinking (an oxymoron), it really helps in bringing the mind into present reality. It's a book I will read again (or portions of it) whenever my mind starts to take me into a negative pattern. Highly recommended.
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A New Earth
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-11-19
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
One of the best books I have ever read that really helps me to understand the world around me and ultimately myself. I keep it handy to refer to on a regular basis, though I confess I have been back-sliding the past few weeks and the anxiety is returning. The real gift of this book is that it puts everything in perspective. That relieves the anxiousness that so seems to pervade our world which leads to wrong perceptions, violence, stupidity, etc. I have given the book as gifts to 3 people so far.
Thank you
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by Eckhart Tolle
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Dutton Adult (2005-10-11)
ISBN: 0525948023
EAN: 9780525948025
Dewy Decimal #: 204.4
Hardcover: 315 pages
SKU: 111408005
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: exlibrary copy in good condition with the usual markings and stickers
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Building on the astonishing success of The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity. Tolle tells us there is good news, however. There is an alternative to this potentially dire situation. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one. In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly are—which is something infinitely greater than anything we currently think we are—and learn to live and breathe freely.
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Stillness Speaks |
Living a Life of Inner Peace
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Gateways to Now
(Inner Life Series)
Audio CD |
Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World
Unabridged Audio CD |
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Transformational
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-11-21
This moving and transformational books offers real-life, concrete solutions to managing the stress of modern living. Where traditional therapy ends (understanding the "why" behind our misery) Mr. Tolle's book and mindfulness begin, by teaching the "how". How to find meaning in the present moment. How to stop looking for happiness in external things. How to learn to appreciate the true self and live a life of intention and kindness. Mr. Tolle gives the reader a wonderful introduction to Buddhist and mindfulness principals, and he also shows how all the major religions are more alike than they are different. His book is an inclusive, welcoming, and loving invitation to change the lens through which you see yourself and life. Highly recommended.
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Incredibly important Contribution to the world
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-11-20
The time of awakening has come. I have felt the shift, and for every ego that is weakened, the world will become a better place. This is a critical read for anyone searching for happiness.
Mark Meincke
Author:
Why not Me? The keys to unlock your power and release your potential
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Old News, Not a New Earth
Rating (1)
Date: 2008-11-20
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Tolle, supposedly a humble person, considers himself enlightened enough to tell everyone else how to be enlightened. He even says that if the Buddha didn't agree with him, Buddha would be wrong.
There is no evidence in the book that Tolle is enlightened at all. I studied and learned all this stuff back in the late 70s and the 80s; Tolle is merely throwing up a mish-mash of Buddhist-New Age thinking that he swallowed years ago.
It's sad that people think this spiritual wisdom when, in fact, it's full of inherent contradictions and self-refuting statements.
Tolle makes an amazing statement when he says that "at the heart of the new consciousness lies the transcendence of thought, the newfound ability of rising above thought" and we will no longer "derive [your] identity" from the "incessant stream of thinking."
And yet, what is this but a thought?! What is this whole book, but words and thinking? He also downgrades words to mere sounds, but of course, his book is in words!
Go figure!
Tolle needs to go back to the drawing board and get basic logic right before he claims to be enlightened.
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Wonderful Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-11-19
Although it calls upon thought to counteract thinking (an oxymoron), it really helps in bringing the mind into present reality. It's a book I will read again (or portions of it) whenever my mind starts to take me into a negative pattern. Highly recommended.
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A New Earth
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-11-19
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
One of the best books I have ever read that really helps me to understand the world around me and ultimately myself. I keep it handy to refer to on a regular basis, though I confess I have been back-sliding the past few weeks and the anxiety is returning. The real gift of this book is that it puts everything in perspective. That relieves the anxiousness that so seems to pervade our world which leads to wrong perceptions, violence, stupidity, etc. I have given the book as gifts to 3 people so far.
Thank you
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by Ken Wilber
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Theosophical Pub House (1980-02)
ISBN: 0835605329
EAN: 9780835605328
Dewy Decimal #: 158.1
Paperback: 204 pages
Edition: 1st printing
SKU: 040108AC29
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...creases in spine on cover...heavy edge and shelf wear
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Wilber chronicles individual psychospiritual development. New Foreword by the author.
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A very special and unique book on development
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-08-28
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have read the other reviews below mine and I understand that Wilber has shortcomings. On the other hand, I also think he has much strength and that this particular book is incredible for a variety of reasons.
First, I think his presentation of transpersonal development is a great attempt at a synthesis of many schools of thought and his overall model for such a cycle is realistic. While some of the correspondences between disparate models might be inaccurate in the particulars, there are enough correlations that it is reasonable to take this work as a good starting point for a more complete synthesis.
Second, I loved the way Wilber explained what it must be like to be an infant or small child. He described the experience of different stages of development so well; I couldn't put the book down and read these sections over and over again.
Third, I liked the way Wilber positioned human development as part of a larger evolution. I believe that he is correct in his general ideas and he presents a hopeful picture of the future of humanity.
Overall, I think this is a very interesting read and complimentary to most of the good standard material that is already out there on development. It doesn't read like a text, it is much more engaging and thought provoking. I really appreciated this approach. The book is also dense; he packs a lot of useful information in a short space without repeating himself as much as he does in some other books.
I did not love the preface, but once I got into the core of the book I was very pleasantly surprised. You can get this volume for as little as $5.00 used. I have bought copies for my friends because I think it is especially good for parents, teachers and others who need to understand the different lines and stages of development from the INSIDE. It is good stuff don't be discouraged away from this book because it isn't perfect in every respect.
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human evolution and spirit involution
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-03-22
3 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a book about human evolution and spirit involution. Wilber painstakenly reviews the stages of growth from the Pleromatic stages up through the Subtle, Causal then finally Non-dual. The Atman Project is regarded as one of the core which upon which Wilber's later and more complex books are based. This is an outstanding work and now my second favorite Wilber book after Eye to Eye.
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The Atman Project
Rating  (3)
Date: 2000-07-24
50 out of 50 customers found this reveiw helpful
I'll admit it straight out: I'm a Wilber fan. After thirty years of philosophical study and spiritual practice, I have only begun to read his work in the past year, but I find that it helps me synthesize many of the disparate thought currents I have studied with each other and with my own experience over thirty years of meditative practice. True, you have to be skeptical of anyone's ability to even read, much less thoroughly understand, all of the farflung disciplines that Wilber cites and purports to synthesize in his work. And in the (many) areas he cites of which I have little or no personal knowledge, it's pretty hard to know whether he's doing a complete or accurate job of analyzing them.But in those areas I do know something about, I have found his work to be as accurate, as luminous and as brilliant as anything I have read. For example, I think he does a better job of summarizing the importance and weaknesses of the work of Immanuel Kant than Arthur Schopenhauer did, and he didn't do such a bad job. His descriptions of meditative states are congruent with my own experiences and with the described experiences of the many writers on that subject with which I am familiar. So he has earned so far a high degree of credibility with me. The Atman Project attempts to integrate the work of developmental psychology with pre-egoic, pre-rational structures of consciousness with the experience of the mystical traditions with post-egoic, post-rational structures, to form a picture of how the individual evolves from structure to structure "up" the hierarchy, or "holarchy" in Wilber language, of these stages. There is a discussion of how "Spirit" "involves" itself downward through these structures and creates the imperative to evolve back up through them to Self-realization. This book was an early work of Wilber's, and though seminal to his thinking, in many ways does not accurately (or at least completely) reflect his current thought system. He states as much himself in later works. I therefore do not recommend it as an introduction to Wilber, but would instead recommend a later work, such as "A Brief History of Everything" or perhaps "The Essential Ken Wilber" for that purpose. And that is why I only give it three stars instead of the five stars I would give to the other six Wilber works I have read so far. However, the more committed Wilber student will find this book helpful in understanding Wilber's notion of how the individual negotiates its way along the "spectrum of consciousness" (though I think a better and more complete explanation can be found in "The Eye of Spirit") and, armed with some understanding of Wilber's more recent writings, perhaps will be less likely to mistake this for being a comprehensive treatment of even this part of his thought. I recommend it for that purpose.
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a workable synthesis....
Rating (3)
Date: 2000-06-02
18 out of 19 customers found this reveiw helpful
....and an interesting summing up of many schools of thought. However, a key problem with the book and with most transpersonal models is what I think of as their verticality worship: higher, better, brighter. But so much of life--and in this I include spiritual life--occurs in the valleys, in the shadows and the messiness and the confusion of life, not in the middle of straight paths that hike up metaphysical mountainsides. I regard the notion that one can achieve blessedness through reading and hard inner work inflated, and I think the Zen masters so often quoted by integral folks would too. --Anyway, Wilber is quite readable and interesting.
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The Atman Fiasco
Rating (3)
Date: 2000-05-20
15 out of 31 customers found this reveiw helpful
"The Atman Project" is the central Wilber's book, the fount ( with the possible exception of "The Spectrum of Consciousness" ) of all his later speculations which try to dovetail all & everything, from biological evolution ( only sketched ) to socio-cultural models & spiritual Weltanschauungen into a single, all- encompassing pattern. Since my opinion is that such an endeavor ( in effect, the whole book is an effort to resolve the ultimate question,:" What is the meaning and purpose of ( human ) life ?" ) is doomed from the outset ( "The Tao that can be told of is not the eternal Tao" ), I'll just adumbrate a few points of this book, without going into nuances & detail which would take us too far.1. In essence, Wilber's "The Atman Project" is a book whose central message is that the meaning & purpose of life is "evolution" of consciousness ( rather fuzzily defined, probably under the influence of Neotheosophical writers/sages like Sri Aurobindo ), culminating in non-dual recognition of oneness of one's being with the eternal Ground of all ( Boehme's Ungrund/Abyss, Advaita's Brahman, Vajrayana's Dharmakaya, Eckhart's Godhead/Gottheit etc. ) In short, you got a clear message: the pinnacle of humanity are Zen patriarchs, Jiddu Krishnamurti or Ramana Maharshi. Shakespeare, Bach or Einstein are still schoolboys. Evidently, such a worldview unabashedly puts the author's pro-mystical bias as *the* key to the "riddle of existence". More, even "spiritually" or religiously minded people could hardly accept that the ground of the theophanies & the source of prophetic revelations, i.e. "God", is, at best, just a passive object of quietist meditative practice of rather passive contemplatives. The Biblical or Koranic God is reduced to an anemic yantra or mumbo-jumboid mantra. 2. Wilber's psychology is a curious blend. Essentially, he assimilated Freudian "insights" ( now heavily questioned ), put them within partially Jungian framework ( his chief reference is Neumann's "The Origin and History of Consciousness", whose singular terminology he amply (mis)uses ( pleromatic self, uroboric self,..))& subsumed under Vajrayana/Tibetan idealist monism. Admittedly- although both pillars of Atman project share the same trait: the absence of genuine levels of selfhood, as exemplified in the indestructible "I" ( Assagioli's Psychosynthesis ), spiritual seed ( Valentinian Gnosticism ), jiva ( Hindu Tantra ), "the naked isolated self" ( Gerda Walther , Psychic Being ( Aurobindo )- that very consistency makes the entire "Atman Project" inconsistent. For, if nothing transpersonal, but still individual, evolves, we are again back on Hegel's evolving Spirit from "Phenomenology of Spirit", "enriched" ( better, fused into perfect confusion ) by Vajrayana Buddhist doctrine. Well, yoy can't get both evolution and illusory nature of reality. 3. At the end, just a few remarks: a) Wilber consistently misreads various "perennial philosophies". For instance, his tables of correspondences at the end of the book are sad examples of ignorance ( Kabbalah's Binah and Hokmah as "spiritial" equivalents of Nirvikalpa Samadhi, plus other numerous bizarre attributions ). b) his obsessive sqabble re pre-trans fallacy is completely redundant- an echo of Freud/Jung disagreements & a few humanistic psychologists' fixations. c) conceptually, there is virtually nothing new cognitive-wise in this book. Whilst other researchers, from Stapp to Stuart Hameroff, try, stumblingly, to come to a new definition of consciousness, Wilber self-congratulatorily rehashes old dogmas & antiaquated concepts. d) considering that Freud's edifice is rapidly falling apart, Wilber's "pre" phase would probably follow the same way.
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by James Allen, Marc Allen
Product Group: Book
Publisher: New World Library (1998-04-15)
ISBN: 1577310748
EAN: 9781577310747
Dewy Decimal #: 289.98
Paperback: 112 pages
Edition: 2nd
SKU: 081108016
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...
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In 1904, a little-known Englishman named James Allen wrote a small book called As a Man Thinketh. A hundred years later, this book has become a self-empowerment classic. New World Library author and publisher Marc Allen updated this timeless gem, recasting obsolete language and polishing the author's message to highlight the universal principles of the original. James Allen's message has now reached a whole new generation of readers with As You Think. Great truths are simple and easy to express, and James Allen's insights into self-empowerment are just that: Personal power lies within the mind. Once awakened, there are no limits to what one can imagine and then achieve with the power of thought. The author shares deep insights into the essential relationship of a person's thoughts to personal character, life circumstances, physical health, life purpose, achievement, and personal serenity. As You Think is a simple yet powerful reminder that "all we achieve and all that we fail to achieve is the direct result of our own thoughts." We are the masters of our destinies.
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THIS AUDIO VERSION IS EXCELLENT !!
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-03-05
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Audio books are excellent reading options or gifts for persons with little time to read or who's sight is challenged or who spend significant time commuting. This audio version is very well read and is of excellent recorded quality. BEWARE that there are some horrifically cruddy readings / very poor audio versions of this book being sold on Ebay and other online places, but this particular audio version from Amazon is excellent in every way. I listen to this tape frequently and something always stands out as very pertinent, almost as if new, every time I listen.
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a must read for every individual with a mind
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-08-29
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
What a fantastic helpful simple book - really helps you wade through the jargon of typical self help books and get away from marketing it is the instruction book on the mind...
easy to read and excellent to keep and read over and over..
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Understand yourself.
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-05-02
51 out of 52 customers found this reveiw helpful
In 1904 a little book was written called As a Man Thinketh. This book is a rewriting of that classic by the grandson of the original author. It is not just a self-help book, a self-empowerment, but a truth that will grip your heart. Each of us has tracks that we play in our minds, things spoken over us in our youth, by parents, teachers, coaches and friends. We have believed these things and lived by them. This book reminds us that what we believe in our minds and hearts will live out in our flesh. It will help us understand that all we achieve or fail to achieve is first a perception in our minds.
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A Metaphisical Masterpiece
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-02-03
12 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a recently published version of the classic volume "As a Man Thinketh" by James Allen. It has been skillfully edited and de-genderized by publisher/author Marc Allen in order to serve as an inspiration for both men and women in our modern times. Throughout the last century, countless individuals have been moved and inspired by this easy to read little primer on the secret of successful living.
The premise of this book is the spiritual wisdom from the Book of Proverbs:
"As you think in your heart, so you are."
In the course of the volume, James Allen clearly describes how clarity of mind, linked with good intentions, can transform our experience of life and release the creative spirit within us all. The ultimate outcome of embracing the simple philosophy of this book is: Serenity.
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Politically Correct Version
Rating (4)
Date: 2003-12-09
25 out of 26 customers found this reveiw helpful
In this edition of "As a Man Thinketh," Marc Allen (no relation to author James Allen), neuters the male overtones by replacing all references to "man" (which I always interpreted as "humanity," not a male or female) with the more sensitive third person and he/she variations. Somehow the statement "as a man thinketh, so is he," does not translate well to "as a person thinketh, so is she or he."Marc Allen points out that in the Buddhist tradition, a book opens with a poem. If the reader can understand the poem, he or she has grasped the meaning of the book, and need not read the entire book. Here is James Allen's opening poem: Mind is the master power that molds and makes,
And we are mind, and evermore we take
the tool of thought,and shaping what we will,
Bring forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills.
We think in secret,and it comes to pass--
Our world is but our looking glass. Thoreau said something similar in a shorter version where he alludes to how the mind of man can create a heaven or hell for itself.
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by Ken D. Foster
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Shared Vision Publishing (2003-06-05)
ISBN: 097260300X
EAN: 9780972603003
Dewy Decimal #: 158
Hardcover: 320 pages
Edition: 2nd
SKU: 081808017
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...shelf wear on dustjacket
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Are you experiencing the life you deserve? If you have been asking the wrong questions and getting nowhere, take a new look at what you can accomplish by asking the right questions... Fulfill your deepest dreams
Unlock your creativity
Manifest unending success
Create wealth in all areas of life Shortcut your journey to success. The insightful, probing questions contained in this book will lead you to understand and create your uniquely personal roadmap to the life you most want.
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Just a bunch of questions
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-09-12
I'm sorry, but Ken Foster calls 300 pages of questions a book...you've got to be kidding?! I am a huge self help book fan, but this is ridiculous. It seems like he culled questions from every self help book ever written and threw them into 300 pages of ...you got it...questions to ask yourself!
Answering all of these 1001 questions won't lead you to success. There is nothing related to implementation, analysis, tips...nothing but questions that most of us have seen time and time again, but never in one book. Overwhelming and only geared toward self discovery, but not success.
Maybe it should be called "We Ask and You Become Introspective."
If that is what you are looking for, then purchase this book
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Better questions lead to better results
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-05-18
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
As a psychologist I understand the importance of finding the right questions to help clarify issues. Ken Forster amassed a fortune in great questions! The book is categorized into 38 chapters that focus on the most important issues that we too often do not think about enough. The questions will stimulate anyone to think more, analyze their situation more carefully and reach a higher level of awareness as a result.
Some questions really require a well thought out elaborate answer, others can be just a yes or no. The deeper prize one gets going through this book is training your mind to search for the right questions on your own. If you were to actually answer all of the questions, I am sure that process would certainly launch you towards greater success. To put it simply, the basic concept of the book really resonates with me, if you ask, you will receive. Get this book and start answering the questions, you will observe faster progress in your life.
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A great way to stay focused
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-04-08
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I found Ken Fosters book very useful in helping me focus on issues that were holding me back. By concentrating on one of the questions in the book at a time and writing down the answers as they evolved, I eventually arrived at a solution that showed me the action I needed to take.
This is a book that I will refer to frequently, such is the nature of life that I do not know which questions I will need to find answers for in the future, but I am sure that they will be in one of the sections of this book.
I am pleased that I bought the book and would recommend it to everyone searching for answers to their limiting questions.
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Choose your destiny
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-04-07
Regarding the filed of personal growth: Analysis, introspection and application is like preparing, planting and harvesting a garden, so where most books teach you how to pull some weeds and tell you what your harvest should look like, Ken's book allows you to choose your destiny, help prepare the soil, plant your seeds of thought, and then actually experience the rewards.
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These questions when asked change your paradigms
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-10-06
6 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
I was fortunate to meet Ken and his wife in San Diego, through a series of synchronicities, that led me to meet the author of this book, Ask And You Will Succeed. I bought this book several months ago, and I found the questions powerful. The book is easy to read, and one must be reflective when you read some of the questions. They carry great importance, and it seemed like every sort of question and covers all areas of life improvement. It's easy to reference and find a topic that you can refer to, and I didn't even read it in chronological order! I just found the section that was most needed and learned these amazingly powerful questions, which when asked, and answered by your subcounscious, do create results, as things start showing up in your life. I would highly recommend you get this book, ask and you will succeed.
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by Warren W. Wiersbe
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Victor (1991-05)
ISBN: 0896938751
EAN: 9780896938755
Dewy Decimal #: 222.11092
Paperback: 152 pages
SKU: 081808011
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...minor wear on cover
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You Can Live the Life of FaithThe Apostle Paul says that those who believe in Jesus Christ "are children of Abraham." The Old Testament patriarch is our father in the faith, and like him we will be blessed if we believe in the Lord. But what is faith and how can you get it? Warren Wiersbe's expository study of Genesis 12-25, focusing on the life and faith of Abraham, will answer your questions. In a practical and personal way, he explains: • How the life of faith begins
• The four tests of true biblical faith
• How to have "overcoming faith" as you face life's battles
• Why and how God tests your faith
• What to do when your faith fails Get better acquainted with Abraham and Sarah and discover the excitement and fulfillment of faith as you learn to Be Obedient.
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by Katie Brazelton, Shelley Leith
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Zondervan (2008-01-01)
ISBN: 0310256534
EAN: 9780310256533
Dewy Decimal #: 248.843
Paperback: 336 pages
SKU: 110608019
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...minor wear on cover
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Embark on a forty-day journey with a personal life coach to develop Christlike character. A continuation of Katie Brazelton’s bestselling Pathway to Purpose for Women, this book was created for women of all ages who want a character-rejuvenating experience that will inspire them to live out God’s unique purpose for their life.
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Character NOT Reputation
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-10-06
Character is who we are when no one is looking. It is what drives our choices and our decisions. Everyone has a character flaw in some way. If you really want to change your life, transform your character. Time honored traits are explored here in Brazelton's book and follows the 40 days theme. This book has alot to offer if you have a Christian focus in your value system. If not, some of what she proposes may be challenging for you but worth a try.
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Makeover or Workover?
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-09-17
This book, though initially designed for women, is still an excellent character challenge for guys as well. The self-examination steps can be very insightful, and very revealing, if you are careful and thoughtful to complete them. Sometimes I felt more that I was getting a spiritual "workover" as much as a "makeover"! This is a workbook you can refer to again and again, to check your progress toward goals set in the different growth areas. It takes a sincere team effort, yielding to the insight of the Holy Spirit, to complete....I didn't make it in 40 days!! But I am very glad to have this in my "spiritual toolbox" both for the steps accomplished, and the future times of review.
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Your Swiss Army Knife for Character Construction
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-08-15
Whether you need to cut away pride or dig up courage, Character Makeover is like having the Swiss Army Knife for character construction in your back pocket. And a coach extraordinaire in your corner. Conveniently set-up as a 40-day bend, stretch and strengthen program, the exercises are far from routine. The 3-demensional interactive approach and extra tools meet you where you are and let you customize every step of the way.
You will be in good company as Character Makeover trains you to keep your chin up, push up on what's holding you down and sitting up to take notice while working on the 8 traits that relay God's renovating power. Get ready to be transformed by biblical characters, contemporary role models, and transparent coaches. Put your dukes up and be prepared to spar with your inner Pinocchio, Fred Flintstone, Shrek and a few other ridiculous rivals poised to knock you out.
You actually do feel warmly enveloped by a real live coach as you journey and pray together through the Character Makeover adventure. Each session vaults you inside the heart of the God who spared nothing out of His love for you and motivates you to jump in to do your part to be "the best me I can be for God."
This is more than a book - it is an engaging, practical and challenging tool that is guaranteed for life. You will want to keep it handy for all your character touch-ups and overhauls as long as you live. Because it really works, even in those hard to reach places.
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I love it!
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-07-20
I am still going through this book but I love it!! It is so relevant to my life. I like how it is broken down into days and gives you real applications for life.
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Life Changing Experience...
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-06-29
Dr. Katie Brazelton & Shelley Leith have created a resource to help women transform their lives. This is an incredible resource for any woman who desires to become all that God desires. The book is filled with inspiration, encouragement, yet challenge. I love the practical "steps" at the end of each character trait. I highly recommend this book and am using it regularly as a tool in my coaching practice!!
Kelly Thorne
www.ibloom.us
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