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4.25 AVERAGE
This book was amazing. I need to purchase it so I can reference it again and again. It was a higher plain of thinking about life from what we often read and true to the core. It has torn down some (false) beliefs I have held for years and really spurred me me to make some big changes in my life. I love the core principle of changing your heart- and even more that we don't really "change but return to ourselves. Highly highly recommend.
When I first started this one, I thought, 'Wow! This will be great!' But as I got into the book, I realized that it wasn't quite for me. I'm not sure what I expected, but I don't think I really need this book. There were a few insights here and there, but overall, it didn't seem like anything completely new.
My uncle gave me this book a few years ago. He said the we could both probably benefit from it. I set it on the shelf and didn't pick it up until recently. My uncle has since passed away. I wish we could have read and discussed the book together. I loved the insights into myself this book gave me. I really think the counsel and guidance this book gives can be life changing. I've caught my response to situations or people on numerous occasions and remembered parts of this book. I believe that I have be taught new ways of thinking of and interpretting myself that can help in relationships, in life and in coming to be who I truly am. Loved the book!
Terry Warner's The Bonds That Make Us Free is one of the most thought-provoking and behavior changing books I have read in some time. it is impossible to capture even a small part of its value-add in this review, so I strongly recommend reading it. Anyone will benefit, and those who think they need it the least will likely benefit the most if they will read it with an open mind and heart.
Nominally fitting into the "self-help" category of books, it really relates more to self-understanding...that is, understanding of our divinely-inspired best selves, and what it will take to understand the truths that will help us live up to our infinite potential. Warner explores issues around self-deception, and living in "the box," and how to remove ourselves from that self-absorbed and self-deceiving way of being. He discusses how we make victims of ourselves and villains of others, all the while reducing ourselves and others to convenient labels that are tied to well-rutted ways of behaving. He points out how we collude with others, unbeknownst to ourselves or them, in ways that lead us to persist in unhealthy and self-damaging behavior.
Then, with case examples and well thought-out language, he carefully and insightfully explains what we can do about these problems. How to return to truthful thinking, feeling, and seeing. And ultimately, how to change our hearts so that we will eventually come to respond in healthy ways of being without even being conscious of it. Finally, he helps us see how the powerful and often dark influences of the past can be overcome and set aside by the truth, leading us to forgive and thus live free of the shackles that have kept us in spiritual, personal, or psychic bondage.
None of this, of course, comes without a price, but the price is paid in courage, hard work, and a willingness to search for and see truth, rather than the comfort of long held falsehoods. TANSTAAFL...nothing is free, but in this case the price is not in coin, but in self-development and awareness and truth. It is a price well worth paying, a debt long overdue for most of us. I am only beginning that journey, but I can see that the end result will be sweet beyond all expectation. This is a book to which I will return often for reminders, further insights, and encouragement.
Nominally fitting into the "self-help" category of books, it really relates more to self-understanding...that is, understanding of our divinely-inspired best selves, and what it will take to understand the truths that will help us live up to our infinite potential. Warner explores issues around self-deception, and living in "the box," and how to remove ourselves from that self-absorbed and self-deceiving way of being. He discusses how we make victims of ourselves and villains of others, all the while reducing ourselves and others to convenient labels that are tied to well-rutted ways of behaving. He points out how we collude with others, unbeknownst to ourselves or them, in ways that lead us to persist in unhealthy and self-damaging behavior.
Then, with case examples and well thought-out language, he carefully and insightfully explains what we can do about these problems. How to return to truthful thinking, feeling, and seeing. And ultimately, how to change our hearts so that we will eventually come to respond in healthy ways of being without even being conscious of it. Finally, he helps us see how the powerful and often dark influences of the past can be overcome and set aside by the truth, leading us to forgive and thus live free of the shackles that have kept us in spiritual, personal, or psychic bondage.
None of this, of course, comes without a price, but the price is paid in courage, hard work, and a willingness to search for and see truth, rather than the comfort of long held falsehoods. TANSTAAFL...nothing is free, but in this case the price is not in coin, but in self-development and awareness and truth. It is a price well worth paying, a debt long overdue for most of us. I am only beginning that journey, but I can see that the end result will be sweet beyond all expectation. This is a book to which I will return often for reminders, further insights, and encouragement.