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When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat
"When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat" is a triumphant journey of self-discovery that will change the very way you look at the world. Like most of us, John was an ordinary man who calmly accepted the problems of his life and career without any real hope or insight. Then a miracle happened. He met a strange, wise businessman named Gideon. It was a brief encounter, filled with mystery. But for John, it was the beginning of a soul-searching journey a joyous awakening of self-understanding, inner truth and the power of universal love that lives within us all. It is a journey you can share too.
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April 19, 2012
If you are looking for somewhere to start a conventional business or buying a home for you and your family, the words you will hear more often than not are Location, Location, and Location! When you read the book “When You Can Walk on Water ~ Take the Boat” the words I would use are Inspiration, Inspiration and Inspiration!
In this book the author, John Harricharan, brings together the world in which we think we live and gives us some insight into the dimensions that lay behind the thin veil between worlds. It’s a perfect blend of facts and stories put together in a fun way with some deeper messages for you to ponder.
The title of the book comes from a story told by the character, Gideon. It concerns a young disciple who declares to his master that he will set himself the goal to be able to walk on water. After many years the young disciple happy to report that he has mastered the art of walking on water, only to hear the reply “‘Why did you not take the boat? You would have saved so much time”.
The story begins with what seems like a chance meeting with a man called Gideon in the parking lot of an office block. However, we know that nothing happens by chance and Gideon seems to know a lot more than the average person you meet and offer some assistance with a car breakdown.
Throughout the book Gideon “appears” to offer his assistance with the challenges the author is facing. Mostly these concern a struggling business, finances and other challenges that most of face in our everyday lives. It’s not long before further support comes in the form of Marla, and associate of Gideon at G & M Enterprises.
As you read through the book, a few of the questions you might begin asking yourself are, who are Gideon and Marla and what is G & M Enterprises? How do they know where John will be and what he is doing at any given time?
Ultimately, John gets to meet the Chairman of the Board and President of G & M Enterprises. You may be as surprised as he was to find out just who that was. For those who are not familiar with the book, I won’t spoil it for you by revealing it here. Suffice to say it is someone who is always around to help those who ask and are open to the answers.
This is truly a story about life and life beyond life. It will take you to the deepest depths of your soul and bring you back again more enlightened. It answers the question, that we are never alone, even though sometimes it feels that way. I would also say that it shows everything happens for a reason and a purpose. Whilst that reason or purpose may not always be clear to begin with, especially when what we perceive as bad things happen, eventually it comes to pass that all of it was for our highest good.
If you are cynical, sceptical and have a mind which tends to be closed to new insights, then this book is certainly NOT for you. You’ll never grasp the concept of system 22 and you’ll be wasting your time. However, if your mind can open just a little, then the insights and thought provoking concepts could send you and the life you live in a whole new direction.
“This is not an ending. It’s not even the beginning of an ending. It’s simply a beginning and so be it.”
In this book the author, John Harricharan, brings together the world in which we think we live and gives us some insight into the dimensions that lay behind the thin veil between worlds. It’s a perfect blend of facts and stories put together in a fun way with some deeper messages for you to ponder.
The title of the book comes from a story told by the character, Gideon. It concerns a young disciple who declares to his master that he will set himself the goal to be able to walk on water. After many years the young disciple happy to report that he has mastered the art of walking on water, only to hear the reply “‘Why did you not take the boat? You would have saved so much time”.
The story begins with what seems like a chance meeting with a man called Gideon in the parking lot of an office block. However, we know that nothing happens by chance and Gideon seems to know a lot more than the average person you meet and offer some assistance with a car breakdown.
Throughout the book Gideon “appears” to offer his assistance with the challenges the author is facing. Mostly these concern a struggling business, finances and other challenges that most of face in our everyday lives. It’s not long before further support comes in the form of Marla, and associate of Gideon at G & M Enterprises.
As you read through the book, a few of the questions you might begin asking yourself are, who are Gideon and Marla and what is G & M Enterprises? How do they know where John will be and what he is doing at any given time?
Ultimately, John gets to meet the Chairman of the Board and President of G & M Enterprises. You may be as surprised as he was to find out just who that was. For those who are not familiar with the book, I won’t spoil it for you by revealing it here. Suffice to say it is someone who is always around to help those who ask and are open to the answers.
This is truly a story about life and life beyond life. It will take you to the deepest depths of your soul and bring you back again more enlightened. It answers the question, that we are never alone, even though sometimes it feels that way. I would also say that it shows everything happens for a reason and a purpose. Whilst that reason or purpose may not always be clear to begin with, especially when what we perceive as bad things happen, eventually it comes to pass that all of it was for our highest good.
If you are cynical, sceptical and have a mind which tends to be closed to new insights, then this book is certainly NOT for you. You’ll never grasp the concept of system 22 and you’ll be wasting your time. However, if your mind can open just a little, then the insights and thought provoking concepts could send you and the life you live in a whole new direction.
“This is not an ending. It’s not even the beginning of an ending. It’s simply a beginning and so be it.”
October 14, 2015
همه ما نمادي از خدا هستيم و همه ما را خداوند خلق كرده ولي مسئله ناراحت كننده اين است كه هر فرد ، راههايي را براي زندگي بهتر به مردم نشان مي دهد. مريدانش خيلي زود راهها را فراموش مي كنند و به پرستش خود او مي پردازند.
__________
در هواي آفتابي هم چتر با خودت ببر
جان هري چاران
حسين نعنا كار
انتشارات كوله پشتي
پ . ن : اي كاش ويرايش و ترجمه بهتري داشت!
__________
در هواي آفتابي هم چتر با خودت ببر
جان هري چاران
حسين نعنا كار
انتشارات كوله پشتي
پ . ن : اي كاش ويرايش و ترجمه بهتري داشت!
February 8, 2014
Professor Peterson Was Right: 100% Junk in Written Form
This is an embarrassing booklet, and wading through it was a torture for my brain. There is an anecdote John Harricharan enjoys telling, about his former college professor who predicted Mr. Harricharan would never become a writer. Mr. Harricharan then points to this booklet as the alleged proof of the opposite. I'm sorry, sir, but Professor Peterson was right.
I felt like constantly slapping my forehead while slogging through this; I kept painfully wincing as if repeatedly hit over the face: so heavy-handed and uncouth is the imitation of fictional prose in this booklet. This level of writing would be inexcusable even in an amateur's blog; excusable only in an informal, personal diary (a diary of dreams, perhaps), not intended for publication – but completely unacceptable in a purported work of "fiction" published for the consumption of the general reading public. It really seems impossible to call this booklet "literature"; rather, it is simply an extremely uncouth, frequently embarrassing amassment of words and sentences. There really is zero literary skill at display here. You feel like listening to a violin concerto performed by someone who has not learned the very basics of playing the violin: you can imagine what that would sound like. Whatever other merits of Mr. Harricharan's may be, he is not a writer. Not every person with a high IQ, not every good businessman, not every accomplished scientist, and not every spiritually perceptive person (and Mr. Harricharan is likely all of those 4) is therefore also a writer. There is no shortcut to being a writer. Being a good writer is a craft that must be studiously learned, before it is mastered on a level that justifies your publishing a literary work of fiction. Publishing such works before one has mastered the very basics of said craft, is – in a way – arrogant and indefensible.
We live in a day and age – particularly thanks to the Internet – when practically anyone may publish anything they desire; and they may even call any of their productions "bestsellers", because the true and original meaning of the term "bestseller" has all but evaporated; remember, it's derived from the adjective "best". I refuse to believe that this booklet is possibly "best" in anything – unless it's the accumulation of horrendous, elementary punctuation mistakes on grade-school level. There are many dozens, possibly a couple of hundred gross punctuation mistakes in this volume. And this is supposed to be "the second revised (!) edition"! Sorry, but this book has not been professionally proofread so far; not even once, let alone twice. Take a look at these samples of atrocious punctuation infesting the volume; from chapter 14:
John Harricharan just loves putting the comma after the word "yet", whether it makes sense or not; he does it so consistently throughout the text, that it's bound to infuriate you sooner or later. Here's another excerpt (from chapter 7):
No typos in the quote above; that's exactly how this appears in the book. Sloppy writing, and sloppy (or non-existent) proofreading – enough said. A third example of punctuation failure (from chapter 10):
Maddening, too, are missing commas when directly addressing other people (mandatory in English grammar):
Reading through the text, one gets the feeling that English is not the writer's native language; and that should not really be an impediment ultimately: a good proofreader would have caught those irksome instances of bad grammar. Because the book, apparently, has never been proofread, you get to read sentences such as (in chapter 3):
If any further proof is needed that the book has not been proofread, look at this excerpt (also from chapter 3):
Some sentences are undiluted, exemplary kitsch. Here is a sample from chapter 15:
Portraying "God" as a person always strikes me as ridiculous; here, too, it uncomfortably reminded me of William P. Young's The Shack, which I found similarly flawed in this respect. Isn't it fatuous to see "God" eating plums and hosting a garden party for the likes of Jesus, Buddha, Elizabeth the First, and Ben Franklin? Sigh... I wonder why LeBron James wasn't invited. Such scenes seem like unmitigated hogwash.
There is an embarrassingly saccharine meeting with the narrator's "dead" father in the penultimate chapter, his father having gone through countless reincarnations; erm, but why exactly would the narrator's father decide to keep this exact form, then? Why would he not look like someone else by now, or like himself while he was still a young man? Who'd like to appear and exist in "heaven" in the bodily shape that he or she was in just shortly before dying? This only goes to show that the "meeting" was the narrator's wishful thinking, hallucination – no more.
Extremely painful and unfiction-like was also the use of real names in the book.
To be praised is that a PDF file containing the text of this book is downloadable for free from the author's website. Less laudable is that the book is not distributed for free in contemporary, user-friendly and modern reading device-friendly e-book formats such as EPUB or Kindle-compatible MOBI; those must be purchased in regular online stores. PDF files as e-book media are a relic of the 1990s, and totally unsuitable for reading e-books nowadays; unfortunately, this fact seems to be escaping many self-published authors. Particularly on small mobile phone screens, reading PDF files is an excruciating experience, quite apart from an e-book's content.
I also dislike the practice of maintaining a bevy of author domains, each Internet address promoting a single book by the writer – instead of simply maintaining a single website by the author, offering all books by him or her. I realise that the multiple domains "trick" is being conjured to maximise potential profits and that this is an e-book "marketing" measure, but it is annoying and, to be honest, smacks of scamming the consumer, or of spammers' practices.
As to the booklet's "theology", if you will, I find John Harricharan's ideas expressed in this volume to be sound and commendable. Here is a sample of a few good quotes by John Harricharan (all from chapter 16):
A couple of quotes of sound theology are not enough to rescue a book, however. They, in fact, make the book's deficiencies even more glaring: I fear that, instead of helping to spread and ensure wide acceptance of commendable ideas, expressing them as ineptly as this volume does, might instead hurt their spread and general acceptance. If you simply wish to share your deep spiritual insights with the whole world, that's fine; but doing so in the form of a fictional story, when you seem unfit for writing fictional stories, is unlikely to be profitable for the spread of those ideas, or for the general readership. Not everyone whose personal theology is sound and admirable, is therefore automatically suited to become a writer (of fiction, or otherwise); that was, apparently, what Professor Peterson was trying to convey to John Harricharan; unfortunately, Mr. Harricharan ignored the Professor's advice.
This is an embarrassing booklet, and wading through it was a torture for my brain. There is an anecdote John Harricharan enjoys telling, about his former college professor who predicted Mr. Harricharan would never become a writer. Mr. Harricharan then points to this booklet as the alleged proof of the opposite. I'm sorry, sir, but Professor Peterson was right.
I felt like constantly slapping my forehead while slogging through this; I kept painfully wincing as if repeatedly hit over the face: so heavy-handed and uncouth is the imitation of fictional prose in this booklet. This level of writing would be inexcusable even in an amateur's blog; excusable only in an informal, personal diary (a diary of dreams, perhaps), not intended for publication – but completely unacceptable in a purported work of "fiction" published for the consumption of the general reading public. It really seems impossible to call this booklet "literature"; rather, it is simply an extremely uncouth, frequently embarrassing amassment of words and sentences. There really is zero literary skill at display here. You feel like listening to a violin concerto performed by someone who has not learned the very basics of playing the violin: you can imagine what that would sound like. Whatever other merits of Mr. Harricharan's may be, he is not a writer. Not every person with a high IQ, not every good businessman, not every accomplished scientist, and not every spiritually perceptive person (and Mr. Harricharan is likely all of those 4) is therefore also a writer. There is no shortcut to being a writer. Being a good writer is a craft that must be studiously learned, before it is mastered on a level that justifies your publishing a literary work of fiction. Publishing such works before one has mastered the very basics of said craft, is – in a way – arrogant and indefensible.
We live in a day and age – particularly thanks to the Internet – when practically anyone may publish anything they desire; and they may even call any of their productions "bestsellers", because the true and original meaning of the term "bestseller" has all but evaporated; remember, it's derived from the adjective "best". I refuse to believe that this booklet is possibly "best" in anything – unless it's the accumulation of horrendous, elementary punctuation mistakes on grade-school level. There are many dozens, possibly a couple of hundred gross punctuation mistakes in this volume. And this is supposed to be "the second revised (!) edition"! Sorry, but this book has not been professionally proofread so far; not even once, let alone twice. Take a look at these samples of atrocious punctuation infesting the volume; from chapter 14:
yet, I was vibrantly awake
John Harricharan just loves putting the comma after the word "yet", whether it makes sense or not; he does it so consistently throughout the text, that it's bound to infuriate you sooner or later. Here's another excerpt (from chapter 7):
Oh it’s not that bad. At least not, yet..., I think.
No typos in the quote above; that's exactly how this appears in the book. Sloppy writing, and sloppy (or non-existent) proofreading – enough said. A third example of punctuation failure (from chapter 10):
the largest, black-mane lion I'd ever seen
Maddening, too, are missing commas when directly addressing other people (mandatory in English grammar):
“How are you Gideon?” [chapter 4]
Reading through the text, one gets the feeling that English is not the writer's native language; and that should not really be an impediment ultimately: a good proofreader would have caught those irksome instances of bad grammar. Because the book, apparently, has never been proofread, you get to read sentences such as (in chapter 3):
Behind a long desk sat a young lady whom I assumed was the receptionist.
If any further proof is needed that the book has not been proofread, look at this excerpt (also from chapter 3):
knowing that sin a few hours I’d be home.
Some sentences are undiluted, exemplary kitsch. Here is a sample from chapter 15:
The morning was bitter cold, but the golden rays of the sun bathed the trees in a frosty, sparkling beauty. Somehow, deep within me, I felt this was to be the day for my visit to System 22.
Portraying "God" as a person always strikes me as ridiculous; here, too, it uncomfortably reminded me of William P. Young's The Shack, which I found similarly flawed in this respect. Isn't it fatuous to see "God" eating plums and hosting a garden party for the likes of Jesus, Buddha, Elizabeth the First, and Ben Franklin? Sigh... I wonder why LeBron James wasn't invited. Such scenes seem like unmitigated hogwash.
There is an embarrassingly saccharine meeting with the narrator's "dead" father in the penultimate chapter, his father having gone through countless reincarnations; erm, but why exactly would the narrator's father decide to keep this exact form, then? Why would he not look like someone else by now, or like himself while he was still a young man? Who'd like to appear and exist in "heaven" in the bodily shape that he or she was in just shortly before dying? This only goes to show that the "meeting" was the narrator's wishful thinking, hallucination – no more.
Extremely painful and unfiction-like was also the use of real names in the book.
To be praised is that a PDF file containing the text of this book is downloadable for free from the author's website. Less laudable is that the book is not distributed for free in contemporary, user-friendly and modern reading device-friendly e-book formats such as EPUB or Kindle-compatible MOBI; those must be purchased in regular online stores. PDF files as e-book media are a relic of the 1990s, and totally unsuitable for reading e-books nowadays; unfortunately, this fact seems to be escaping many self-published authors. Particularly on small mobile phone screens, reading PDF files is an excruciating experience, quite apart from an e-book's content.
I also dislike the practice of maintaining a bevy of author domains, each Internet address promoting a single book by the writer – instead of simply maintaining a single website by the author, offering all books by him or her. I realise that the multiple domains "trick" is being conjured to maximise potential profits and that this is an e-book "marketing" measure, but it is annoying and, to be honest, smacks of scamming the consumer, or of spammers' practices.
As to the booklet's "theology", if you will, I find John Harricharan's ideas expressed in this volume to be sound and commendable. Here is a sample of a few good quotes by John Harricharan (all from chapter 16):
You think that you believe what you see. In reality, you see what you believe. Instead of trying to ‘set’ things right, try to ‘see’ them right and they’ll automatically be set right.
See your problems and challenges through Me instead of seeing Me through them.
We are one—all in one and one in all. The good that you do, you do for yourself. The evil that one does is his alone.
A couple of quotes of sound theology are not enough to rescue a book, however. They, in fact, make the book's deficiencies even more glaring: I fear that, instead of helping to spread and ensure wide acceptance of commendable ideas, expressing them as ineptly as this volume does, might instead hurt their spread and general acceptance. If you simply wish to share your deep spiritual insights with the whole world, that's fine; but doing so in the form of a fictional story, when you seem unfit for writing fictional stories, is unlikely to be profitable for the spread of those ideas, or for the general readership. Not everyone whose personal theology is sound and admirable, is therefore automatically suited to become a writer (of fiction, or otherwise); that was, apparently, what Professor Peterson was trying to convey to John Harricharan; unfortunately, Mr. Harricharan ignored the Professor's advice.
July 15, 2012
A guide to living a more fulfilled life
September 16, 2011
A wonderfully inspiring tale! I recommend it highly for anyone.
May 3, 2009
If you like reading Og Mandino and Richard Bach, then you will apreciate this inspirational book. I really enjoyed this book for the message of hope and possibility it provided.
January 1, 2013
There is hardly anything in this book that you don't know already.
April 5, 2013
Quick read. Lots of food for thought.
August 23, 2020
ارزش نخوندن داره :(
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August 27, 2019
A book that will change your outlook towards life. This book will leave something within you.... And you would want to come back to it whenever you are in distress. It is rare to find a book which although told in story form allows it's message to penetrate deep within your subconscious and unlike many so called 'self help' books make its mark on you. It mixes the physical and spiritual experiences so seamlessly that you begin to believe that that the characters who appear from time to time in the book are really present and that this time and location shifting is very possible. One of the most captivating book.
Best line from the book is :
"Take some time to enjoy the life. Everyone has the same measure of time. 24 hours a day. It's what you do with your time that's important."
Best line from the book is :
"Take some time to enjoy the life. Everyone has the same measure of time. 24 hours a day. It's what you do with your time that's important."
July 11, 2021
I actually read this years ago when it first came out online :-)
After finally reading all of his books, I came away changed for the better in many ways. They touched me deeply.
He is a genuinely humble man !!! To this day I still read his books, especially when I am going through change and I need something to give me hope and inspiration :-)
After finally reading all of his books, I came away changed for the better in many ways. They touched me deeply.
He is a genuinely humble man !!! To this day I still read his books, especially when I am going through change and I need something to give me hope and inspiration :-)
June 29, 2025
While the story is sort of weak, especially at the end, a few pieces like “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear” and “What ever gave you the idea that I dwell in temples?” stand out as bits worth remembering.
November 28, 2017
I will say only one thing! This is a piece of shit!!! Total Waste of time. I wish I should not have read this book.
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November 29, 2012Jedna z książek, którą polecał Joe Vitale, a że była do ściągnięcia za darmo i zainteresował mnie tytuł... Ale hmm, trudno mi ocenić tą książkę. Może nie do końca odpowiada mi taka formuła, tzn. spotkanie z Bogiem, przyjacielska pogawędka... Nie czytało mi się jej już tak łatwo jak poprzednich przeczytanych po angielsku (cóż, chyba jednak gejowska love story wchodzi lepiej :D ), a może po prostu nie mogłem się skupić i przypuszczam, że ją jeszcze kiedyś doczytam... A teraz cytaty, bo jest z pewnością dużo fajnych fragmentów (gdzieniegdzie moje komentarze).
"We are all manifestations of God. We were created in the image of God."
"Life is a joyous adventure. Start to enjoy it."
"God is not in a place or time. God is here and now. Heaven or hell is here and now. God does not sit on a golden throne surrounded by angels who play harps or fly around all day. If you think that is what heaven is, you’d better start taking music lessons as well as flying lessons. God is in each person, in each life form, in each and every part of creation. God is no more or less present in you than in another life form at the edge of the galaxy.
And God listens and cares. He’s even concerned about the little sparrows and the lilies of the field. Wouldn’t He be concerned about you, or for that matter, me?"
"Beliefs are extremely important. You think that you believe what you see. In reality, you see what you believe. Instead of trying to ‘set’ things right, try to ‘see’ them right and they’ll automatically be set right."
"There is only one power and one force in the universe and I AM THAT."
"You are a part of Me and, yet, at times, you think yourselves apart from Me. You are made as I am. That which I do, you can do also. You are all co-creators with Me."
"Love is the most powerful force in the universe."
- coś tak czuję, że Rhonda Byrne też czytała tą książkę ;)
"The whole thing is very simple. People must learn that they are all ship- mates on the common voyage of life and that they cannot sink their shipmates without sinking themselves."
"You, my son, are as valid as I am. When you can honestly say to yourself, ‘I and my Father are One,’ then you’ll be a master of the universe. You see, I am you in spirit as much as you are Me in becoming."
- jesteśmy częścią Boga - w to akurat wierzyłem zawsze. Jesteśmy manifestacją Boga, tak jak był Jezus, Mahomet itp. - to też już z jakiejś książki przytaczałem, ale tutaj najlepiej widać tego sens w pełni, jest nawet taki fragment:
"“How can they all be at the same party, Lord?” I asked,
“I mean, Krishna and the Buddha conversing with Mohammed
and Jesus? And who are Joseph, Jennifer and Annabelle?”
“They're all created in my image. Each is as important
as the other. The famous names, you recognize. The other
three, though not mentioned in history books, are still quite as
dear to me. They were just simple folks, each one trying to
fulfill his or her mission. This is a cooperative universe, not a
competitive one, John. For someone to be richer, another
doesn’t have to be poorer. For you to be healthy, no one has
to be sick. There’s enough and more than enough for everyone.
In the game of life, all can win and all can receive
prizes.”"
i to chyba dopiero teraz (zabawne że po lekturze książki, której by KK nie poparł ;) ) zrozumiałem sens chrześcijańskiej wiary w jednego Boga w trzech osobach - "You are a part of Me (...)" i "You, my son, (...)" - Jezus był synem Boga, my jesteśmy dziećmi Boga, czyli też jesteśmy jego częścią (jeszcze tylko nie odkryłem tajemnicy Ducha Świętego ;) chociaż jak pisze Wikipedia: "(...) często uważana jest jedynie za przejaw działalności Bożej." i dalej: "Stąd w podanym tekście nie oznacza osoby Ducha Świętego, lecz twórczą moc Bożą." - hmm, "twórcza moc boża"... i jeszcze ciekawe, że jako pierwszy z owoców działania Ducha Świętego wymieniona jest miłość - ma sens? no ja myślę, że ma ;) ). Znaczy może inaczej: nie tyle zrozumiałem sens wiary chrześcijańskiej, tylko raczej, że chrześcijaństwo całkiem blisko prawdy się znajduje, szkoda tylko że inaczej ją interpretuje ;)
Skoro więc jesteśmy częścią Boga, to nie jest dziwne, że też mamy moc sprawczą. No ja to tak widzę.
"We are all manifestations of God. We were created in the image of God."
"Life is a joyous adventure. Start to enjoy it."
"God is not in a place or time. God is here and now. Heaven or hell is here and now. God does not sit on a golden throne surrounded by angels who play harps or fly around all day. If you think that is what heaven is, you’d better start taking music lessons as well as flying lessons. God is in each person, in each life form, in each and every part of creation. God is no more or less present in you than in another life form at the edge of the galaxy.
And God listens and cares. He’s even concerned about the little sparrows and the lilies of the field. Wouldn’t He be concerned about you, or for that matter, me?"
"Beliefs are extremely important. You think that you believe what you see. In reality, you see what you believe. Instead of trying to ‘set’ things right, try to ‘see’ them right and they’ll automatically be set right."
"There is only one power and one force in the universe and I AM THAT."
"You are a part of Me and, yet, at times, you think yourselves apart from Me. You are made as I am. That which I do, you can do also. You are all co-creators with Me."
"Love is the most powerful force in the universe."
- coś tak czuję, że Rhonda Byrne też czytała tą książkę ;)
"The whole thing is very simple. People must learn that they are all ship- mates on the common voyage of life and that they cannot sink their shipmates without sinking themselves."
"You, my son, are as valid as I am. When you can honestly say to yourself, ‘I and my Father are One,’ then you’ll be a master of the universe. You see, I am you in spirit as much as you are Me in becoming."
- jesteśmy częścią Boga - w to akurat wierzyłem zawsze. Jesteśmy manifestacją Boga, tak jak był Jezus, Mahomet itp. - to też już z jakiejś książki przytaczałem, ale tutaj najlepiej widać tego sens w pełni, jest nawet taki fragment:
"“How can they all be at the same party, Lord?” I asked,
“I mean, Krishna and the Buddha conversing with Mohammed
and Jesus? And who are Joseph, Jennifer and Annabelle?”
“They're all created in my image. Each is as important
as the other. The famous names, you recognize. The other
three, though not mentioned in history books, are still quite as
dear to me. They were just simple folks, each one trying to
fulfill his or her mission. This is a cooperative universe, not a
competitive one, John. For someone to be richer, another
doesn’t have to be poorer. For you to be healthy, no one has
to be sick. There’s enough and more than enough for everyone.
In the game of life, all can win and all can receive
prizes.”"
i to chyba dopiero teraz (zabawne że po lekturze książki, której by KK nie poparł ;) ) zrozumiałem sens chrześcijańskiej wiary w jednego Boga w trzech osobach - "You are a part of Me (...)" i "You, my son, (...)" - Jezus był synem Boga, my jesteśmy dziećmi Boga, czyli też jesteśmy jego częścią (jeszcze tylko nie odkryłem tajemnicy Ducha Świętego ;) chociaż jak pisze Wikipedia: "(...) często uważana jest jedynie za przejaw działalności Bożej." i dalej: "Stąd w podanym tekście nie oznacza osoby Ducha Świętego, lecz twórczą moc Bożą." - hmm, "twórcza moc boża"... i jeszcze ciekawe, że jako pierwszy z owoców działania Ducha Świętego wymieniona jest miłość - ma sens? no ja myślę, że ma ;) ). Znaczy może inaczej: nie tyle zrozumiałem sens wiary chrześcijańskiej, tylko raczej, że chrześcijaństwo całkiem blisko prawdy się znajduje, szkoda tylko że inaczej ją interpretuje ;)
Skoro więc jesteśmy częścią Boga, to nie jest dziwne, że też mamy moc sprawczą. No ja to tak widzę.
September 22, 2016
An entertaining easy read.
July 7, 2009
Everything about this book said it was truly inspirational. Maybe because I've already drawn so many of the same conclusions, but the book felt contrived to me. I guess it was more confirmation for me than inspiration, so it was still a worthwhile read.
(Spoiler Comment) And I found myself frustrated to find God portrayed, once again, as a Man. Not that the gender bothered me, but it just perpetuates this idea that God is person-like, rather than energy like.
(Spoiler Comment) And I found myself frustrated to find God portrayed, once again, as a Man. Not that the gender bothered me, but it just perpetuates this idea that God is person-like, rather than energy like.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 21, 2015
Small book with great message..The best line which i took from this book is: we follow the messenger instead of his message. This book tells that we must first know our self and all the answers lies there. But we are so busy in other things that we don't give time to ourself and never think about what we really want to be. Just try to spend time with yourself and understand yourself first.
December 18, 2015
Hhhmmmm I enjoyed the lessons but? felt forced (?) I did like the concept of we make things harder for ourselves and a super spiritual bbq
August 5, 2014
A nice allegory. Reminded me of Ismael.
April 13, 2017
Its good.
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