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From Suffering to Joy: The Path of the Heart
From Suffering to Joy offers a method of self-discovery that can help bring harmony to your life and help you build truly intimate relationships. Prem Baba is a Brazilian master teacher of an ancient spiritual lineage in India who focuses on building a bridge between spirituality and psychology, East and West. In this book he offers a practical methodology called the Path of the Heart, which can help you learn to:
-Overcome limiting psychological patterns by recognizing and working with your inner child
-Take responsibility for and transform the negative conditioning that causes suffering to you and those around you
-Awaken your higher consciousness through daily practices of meditation and prayer
-Contribute to resolving global problems through changes in your life
By following the Path of the Heart, you will be able to move beyond the limitations of the ego and know the love and joy that are your essence.
-Overcome limiting psychological patterns by recognizing and working with your inner child
-Take responsibility for and transform the negative conditioning that causes suffering to you and those around you
-Awaken your higher consciousness through daily practices of meditation and prayer
-Contribute to resolving global problems through changes in your life
By following the Path of the Heart, you will be able to move beyond the limitations of the ego and know the love and joy that are your essence.
368 pages, Paperback
First published January 15, 2013
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April 9, 2021
I attended a few of Prem Baba's seasons at his ashram in Brazil and the Sachcha Dham ashram in India. I learned a lot from his satsangs/discourses.
I think this book is difficult to fully understand if you haven't already familiarized yourself with the "lingo" of spiritual terms and ideas circulated in the Prem Baba sangha during the time of the publication of this book. That's not to say it's a you-had-to-be-there situation, since the ideas he talks about in the book are supposed to be spiritually intrinsic, so any "seeker of the truth" should be able to discover the meaning within while reading this book.
That said, it does help if you were there. If you weren't, you could just listen to a number of his satsang recordings from anywhere before 2014 and you'll be able to acquire that "lingo" pretty quickly.
I think this book is difficult to fully understand if you haven't already familiarized yourself with the "lingo" of spiritual terms and ideas circulated in the Prem Baba sangha during the time of the publication of this book. That's not to say it's a you-had-to-be-there situation, since the ideas he talks about in the book are supposed to be spiritually intrinsic, so any "seeker of the truth" should be able to discover the meaning within while reading this book.
That said, it does help if you were there. If you weren't, you could just listen to a number of his satsang recordings from anywhere before 2014 and you'll be able to acquire that "lingo" pretty quickly.
October 13, 2022
Interesting mixing in wounded child and shadow work with yoga and Buddhism, along with teachings of Jesus, but for me it still felt like an average book on spirituality. I appreciate the focus on love over rigid meditation and mindfulness practices though for sure.
December 3, 2016
Amazing book for inner growth
September 1, 2013
If you're looking for a guru, look no further.
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