The Path to Meaning: Discover the Hidden Laws of the Universe

by Agnes Bodi

Many of us struggle to find purpose in our lives. Reconnecting to your authentic self—to your emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies—can help you find the meaning you seek. In one hour, this book can help you take your first steps to self-improvement through a series of techniques that focus on understanding your inner self and your interaction with the universe.
These unconventional perspectives will challenge and support you to help you experience a shift in your inner and outer realms by unveiling the Universe’s gentle, “behind the curtain” scenery. Your path to meaning is waiting for you to reconnect with it.
Even if you are not familiar with spirituality or do not believe in all of its tenets, there is still much useful information to take from it. This book is for everyone who aspires to experience more authentic living in their everyday lives.

Author

Agnes is a educational counsellor, psychology graduate and artist. She comes from a culturally diverse family in northern Transylvania, where she was raised by her paternal grandfather, a master church restaurateur who with his lifelong activity of renovating church art became the greatest influence of her early life. After a turnaround of life events , including switching continents she returns to her artist roots , along with following her own soul path of a passionate spiritual seeker.
Today she happily writes and paints in London where she enjoys running her own groups of emotional literacy support for children’s personal development.

Genres: Spirituality

50 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 18, 2017

About the author

Agnes is a educational counsellor, psychology graduate and artist. She comes from a Hungarian-Roumanian family of the culturally vibrant Transylvania, where raised by her paternal grandfather, a master church restaurateur who with his lifelong activity of renovating church art became the greatest influence of her early life.

After a turnaround of life events , including switching continents she returns to her artist roots. Being a passionate spiritual seeker on her lifelong journey following her own soul path, and with her early drive to help others see, experience their own as well as their lives fullest potential, she becomes a practitioner of master level Reiki systems and shares her journey's spiritual knowledge and experiences through writing.

Today she happily writes and paints in London where she enjoys running her own groups of emotional literacy support for children’s personal development.

Reviews

[Nathan Albright · Rating 3 out of 5]

[Note:  This book was provide free of charge by BooksGoSocial. All thoughts and opinions are my own.]

I am not sure that every potential reader is going to have the minimum necessary context in order to understand this book.  The version I read came in at around 50 pages or so, and that was barely enough time to get through the author's discussion without any explanation of terms or concepts.  The author of this book more or less assumes that the reader is familiar with and in agreement with basic New Age ideas.  Admittedly, I am pretty familiar with this kind of book [1], more than I want to be at any rate, and so I understood what the author was saying.  That is not to say that I agreed with very much of it, but I certainly understood it.  You would be well-recommended to pass this book, though, unless you are pretty familiar with New Age thinking in general, at least from "The Secret" or one of its legions of imitators.

The contents of this book are described pretty straightforwardly by the book's title.  The author seeks to present a path to meaning that goes beyond religion, thinking of religion as a restrictive program in someone's mind that keeps them from full enlightenment.  This is an argument that would be likely to appeal to many, but not to this particular reader.  The author is notably oblique in her writing, commenting on being exhausted by karmic encounters that didn't go anywhere, without explaining what she meant.  Did she mean she had friendship drama where she didn't get what she gave?  Was she referring to frustrated romances?  I guess it's not my business but I thought it a strangely odd way of describing one's relationships or interactions with others.  Other than enough odd quirks to demonstrate that the author is being personal, the book largely recycles common ideas about vibrations and the law of attraction that what one finds in life is what one is.  Fortunately, the author seems to recognize that not everyone is going to agree with what she writes, which gives the book a less than strident feel that comes off fairly well.

While I disagree with a great deal of what is said in this book, I don't feel a sense of hostility towards the author.  Probably because of her quirkiness, she comes off as someone with whom I would respectfully if heavily disagree but without rancor.  The author is looking to express what she views of as the truth with a larger and candid world.  There are quite a few people who already agree with her and can nod their head at her discussion of the dysfunctionality of much of contemporary life, and there are no doubt many people who are at least open to the message that she has to give.  I can't count myself as one of those people, but I do not consider this book as something worthy of hatred or scorn, but rather an invitation to discussion.  In my view, this book and the New Age "law of attraction" solution tend to engage in blaming the victim, because bad things happen to people who are themselves defective, reversing a great deal of the cause and effect that is true in this existence.  Little children, to take an example not at random, are not abused because they are repaying some sort of excessive karmic debt.  Rather, they are abused because other people are evil and they are vulnerable enough to serve as a revelation of the character or lack thereof of those around them.  We live in a world full of darkness and evil, and sometimes we must align ourselves against it.

[1] See, for example:

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2016...

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2013...

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2017...

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2016...

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2016...

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2016...

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2016...

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2016...

[Raymond Mathiesen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Path to Meaning: How to Align Yourself with the Universe, Make Use of its Hidden Laws, and Fill Your Life with Meaning

I can't quite manifest…

You may believe in positive potential, the law of attraction, or the power of prayer, but have experienced blocks, sometimes feeling that you will never get through. "Why is this so?" you may ask. "What am I doing wrong?" This book talks about getting in tune with the universe. Your flow of life needs to be in tune with the flow of the universe in order for your intentions to manifest anything. Bodi's text could be said to be religious, as she does talk about 'God' and 'God's plan', but really the words 'Universe' and 'Cosmic pattern' can easily be used as replacements. I am not religious and I certainly gained things from reading this book and was easily able to harmonize it with my philosophy.

The 16 chapters are very short (only three or four pages long), but need to be thought about. I recommend reading just one chapter a day during a coffee break, or as part of your morning meditation. This book is so short it would be easy to wiz through it and totally miss the meaning. You may feel you have heard much of the ideas before, but Bodi's slant is subtly different.

So if you feel you want to take an active part in your life, but are pushed around by forces much greater than yourself, this is the book for you. To give you my background I am New Age, influenced by Wicca and Jungian philosophy, but with on real ties to any particular belief. I believe in free thought. With that in mind I am awarding this book 5 stars, as it was really an enjoyable and enlightening read.

[Kevin McAllion · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is only a short book but plenty of wisdom is packed into its pages. In an era where narcissism, materialism and greed are taking an ever firmer grip, it’s refreshing to see Agnes Bodi preach a message of spirituality, love and understanding. Faith plays a key role in the book but you don’t need to be religious to pick up on the advice offered. Bodi claims at the start of the book that her aim in passing on knowledge and insight is to “guide your steps towards a more meaningful life”. It’s a lofty goal and what shines through is the fact the only person who can effect change in your life is yourself. Reading this book won’t make you a more spiritual person unless you actually put in the effort to practise what is preached. The Path To Meaning is certainly thought provoking but my main gripe with the book is that Bodi’s advice sometimes get lost in the dense language she uses. It’s heavy on jargon, with talk of “vibrations”, “frequencies” and “downloads” and this often makes for a confusing read. After reading a page, I sometimes found myself instantly forgetting what I’d just read, forcing me to go back over it to pick up on what Bodni was trying to say. This is the first time I’ve read a so-called “self-improvement” book and maybe it’s a problem of the genre but I couldn’t help but think the use of far simpler language would have made for a better and more enjoyable read.