Review: Very Helpful Book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2014
I found this book to be very helpful in my life.  Everyone has painful memories, and so many times I feel like my memories are more painful than others.  My mother passed away when I was 9 years old, and I lived through a tumultuous childhood after that.  Looking back on the painful parts of my childhood often weighed me down.  What this book taught me and continuously reinforced, was that by concentrating on the positive parts of our past we can overcome the negative parts.  When I look back on my childhood and focus on the positive memories, the good times that I had with my mother when she was alive and some of the activities that I enjoyed doing with my father as a child, all of the bad stuff just seems to fade away.  This book has helped me to have a more positive outlook on life in general, and kept me from closing down and just becoming an all around negative person, as I easily could have.  One of the things that the book taught me that has been especially helpful is how to develop my senses through daily meditations, and walking through my memories using all of my senses and seeing these memories in a positive light.  Another part that was enlightening was about making realistic goals about self improvement.  I have had to learn to work on my life just a little at a time.  If I try to do too much I just get overwhelmed and wind up accomplishing nothing.  The author also explored the idea of composed ignorance, and I gained a wealth of knowledge from his exploration of this idea.  A quote from this book that has really stuck with me says "Not all knowledge is useful, and not all ignorance is bad".  This book taught me that I don't have to know everything about everything, and sometimes not knowing about stuff is ok, as long as I concentrate my efforts on my own environment.  I certainly gained a lot of help from this book, and I firmly believe that anyone else who reads it will benefit.