A review by okinreads
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed this book! Something that I found unique and helpful was that the author included a lot of relatable examples that showed exactly how to use what he’s talking about in the book. I enjoy reading about enlightenment and inner peace, but a lot of the time it can feel confusing, especially when I’m trying to imagine how to apply the teachings into my own life. Because of the examples the author included, I feel like I can actually use some of what he talked about to directly improve my mindset and life in general immediately. My experience reading most of this book involved reading a chapter or so in one sitting and then applying what he said to my life and mindset and then going back to the book the next day. This is the main reason I’m rating this book 5 stars - it is an easy to understand, practical book, that gives clear examples and strategies for what to do. The only two things that I didn’t like as much about this book are 1) it’s repetitive and 2) it becomes explicitly religious in the final chapter. The repetitiveness was fine, because different people will need to see concepts in different ways to understand. But I didn’t really like how in the last chapter, the author begins outright talking about God and that if you see ultimate beauty in things then that is god seeing through you, not you seeing on your own. Growing up non-religious, I found this to be uncomfortable wording and I just didn’t resonate with it as much. But I’d still highly recommend this book!