Conversations with God
Back on 1/13, I read the book "Conversations with God", which Inna had given me. I thought I should include my reaction here. The book had an interesting premise, but it was also very repetitive and not exactly written for someone like me. However, I did find nine substantive concepts to take away. They were:
- Act out of your highest thought, not fear.
- Judge based on your own ideas, thoughts, and experiences, rather than what you're told or what you're expected to do.
- Control your "story" and what you tell others you are, because those do create, establish, and limit what they think of you.
- Fairness and justice are based wholly on judgementalism. If we are not supposed to judge others, fairness and justice are inappropriate behaviors.
- Similarly, you should try to live your life without expectations, because they create judgementalism.
- There is no meaning to life but to experience life itself.
- Both relationships and any setbacks in your life are opportunities to demonstrate your self-improvement.
- I should spend more time thinking about the attributes of the person I'd like to be.
- One way to reverse bad behaviors is to first act differently, the way you imagine you might act if your motivations were different. Then change how you think about those actions. Then change your motivating thought, which will cement the behavioral changes you've been mimicking.
The book kept my attention. It wasn't anywhere near "transformational", but it had some good thoughts that I'd like to incorporate into my daily life. Just nothing radical.