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Walls of My Heart
Powerful Keys to Breaking Out and Being Free.
258 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1989
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April 15, 2022
Apparently some people find this book unappealing. No surprise really. I guess, it all depends on type and personality, and to which degree you're up to swallow any bitter pill. Last but not least, whether you have the guts to honestly weigh its biblical foundations and interlacings (yes, the author combines his clinical expertise with a biblical world-view).
For years on row and in spite of myself, I found myself coming back to this edgy book, all the more because somehow its "blurry" concepts managed to disturb me with this or that facet, and in the end the author hindered me succesfully to write it off lazily and with false complacency.
So I kept coming back over time, rereading and each time digging in with more detail, giving its seemingly "fuzzy" suggestions a deeper notch of carefull reflection. Most of the time thoroughly frustrated, with lots of turnings at dead ends. Reassessing over long periods of time what I thought I had understood from the book. Only to discover time and time again some new "tilting" facet that before I somehow strangely overlooked. On such insightful occasions I could only wonder why this "in some way" brushy outlines kept opening up to me, like unravelling some coding sheet. Approaching the written with some fresh look at the right time and place, payed out to me. Strange how we humans have particular tendencies to stay "blindfolded" until we finally really start paying attention.
Clearly I had to become far more relentless and much more meticulous than my inital childish expectations and longings for a quick sorting-out. With such an overwhelmingly complex subject matter, swift readings will not deliver much. Only through the years, I actually managed to investigate (!) the suggestions of this book in depth. Often turning stones over an over and looking literally word by word in my pursuits.
Therefore in the end, I am really glad. As Bruce Thompson managed to help me prod open ever deeper aspects of my evasive psyche, assisting and stirring me through his sketchy paths whenever I signed in again.
Even so, the subject really hasn't lost much of its endless complexity and mystery. A paradox, sure, but what else was to be expected? Why should the unseen human "heart" be lesser a mystery as the lower leveled field of quantum physics? Only fools keep saying in their heart, there is no Creator God.
All in all, this book kept me busy for the last 25 years. Reading and rereading it, whenever I intuitively felt inclined to, despite ongoing frustrations with further dead ends.
But then again: Amazing what levels of personal insight keep revealing themselves when you least expect them. Sometimes it's all about levels of motivation... or inward-looking processes plus time. Somehow the author's outlines kept me on edge and disturbed, and on the move. What is dished up is rather a vantage point. It's the reader who has to fill in the blanks and keep digging.
No easy reader, but rewarding, because touching on spiritual core.
For years on row and in spite of myself, I found myself coming back to this edgy book, all the more because somehow its "blurry" concepts managed to disturb me with this or that facet, and in the end the author hindered me succesfully to write it off lazily and with false complacency.
So I kept coming back over time, rereading and each time digging in with more detail, giving its seemingly "fuzzy" suggestions a deeper notch of carefull reflection. Most of the time thoroughly frustrated, with lots of turnings at dead ends. Reassessing over long periods of time what I thought I had understood from the book. Only to discover time and time again some new "tilting" facet that before I somehow strangely overlooked. On such insightful occasions I could only wonder why this "in some way" brushy outlines kept opening up to me, like unravelling some coding sheet. Approaching the written with some fresh look at the right time and place, payed out to me. Strange how we humans have particular tendencies to stay "blindfolded" until we finally really start paying attention.
Clearly I had to become far more relentless and much more meticulous than my inital childish expectations and longings for a quick sorting-out. With such an overwhelmingly complex subject matter, swift readings will not deliver much. Only through the years, I actually managed to investigate (!) the suggestions of this book in depth. Often turning stones over an over and looking literally word by word in my pursuits.
Therefore in the end, I am really glad. As Bruce Thompson managed to help me prod open ever deeper aspects of my evasive psyche, assisting and stirring me through his sketchy paths whenever I signed in again.
Even so, the subject really hasn't lost much of its endless complexity and mystery. A paradox, sure, but what else was to be expected? Why should the unseen human "heart" be lesser a mystery as the lower leveled field of quantum physics? Only fools keep saying in their heart, there is no Creator God.
All in all, this book kept me busy for the last 25 years. Reading and rereading it, whenever I intuitively felt inclined to, despite ongoing frustrations with further dead ends.
But then again: Amazing what levels of personal insight keep revealing themselves when you least expect them. Sometimes it's all about levels of motivation... or inward-looking processes plus time. Somehow the author's outlines kept me on edge and disturbed, and on the move. What is dished up is rather a vantage point. It's the reader who has to fill in the blanks and keep digging.
No easy reader, but rewarding, because touching on spiritual core.
November 22, 2019
This volume is an overview of Bruce Thompson's "plumbline" teaching, which I remember being particularly popular in YWAM circles in Asia in the 1990s. I'd picked up an old, used copy sometime ago, and in reading it, honestly did not have high expectations. I was surprised and grateful for the degree to which this holds up, and by the end, was thinking about to whom I might recommend this. Worth slowly and honestly working one's way through it, even if some of the psychology is a little bit dated.
February 5, 2018
A good and important book, though a bit heavy to get through on your own. To get the most out of it, it should be coupled with the Divine Plumbline Seminar offered by YWAM. Or perhaps used for an in depth group study or as a resource in counseling.
April 28, 2019
One of the best books I have ever read. So life changing an accurate. Certain to be a life reference point for me as I follow the divine plum line in my life. I even went out and purchased a plum line to hang in my office as a divine reminder to follow in my own life.
July 2, 2022
Excelente libro
June 4, 2016
Just perfect
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