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While I waited for my bus on the way home after work. Monday, February 2012. (mobile camera shot)

Monday, August 12, 2013

How To Be Free

I should be applying for jobs at this moment but my mind keeps getting distracted by not writing this post.

Recently I downloaded few free books on my iPad. These days I use to travel for 1.5 hour x2 almost each day, which means I have lot of time to read books. One of the books I just tapped on to be downloaded was titled "How To Be Free" by Joe Blow.

Now you may think that I don't feel free hence I want to be accompanied by this kind of books. Maybe. I am just making progress in this area. Lately I have been trying to understand why our human fellows behave in certain ways. So to support my understanding of the basics and get some new perspectives on this, I thought this book may have some answers. I have to say that I always have been poor in understanding people. Understanding in the essence that I never really thought about any hidden agendas, that people said what they meant/felt. My earlier world was so black and white, no grey zones existed! As I started to see that people do not express what they want, but instead play games with their human fellows, I thought enough is enough. I may get started understanding this human being and its nature. I may say what I have felt so far about human beings is nicely put down on writings in this amazing book. Amazing so far till the first 31 pages, as I haven't finished it yet...may finish it by today.

Already from the first page this book is very appealing, honest; clearly and effortlessly says why human behaves in the certain ways they behave!
- what is Evil
- what is Armouring
- what is Sexuality
Just few topic among the pages I have read so far.

The main point I got here, and which, for some people is an awful truth, is:
We deny, struggle, and fight against those things we may think we do not have, thus projecting hatred, jealousy, bullying etc. on other people is the "natural" way of expressing for most of people.

Understanding this, we no longer will feel the necessity to look inwards ourselves to understand why some people act/behave in certain way. Understanding this will equip us with the tools needed to face any situations with upright head full of confidence!

But everything needs some time full of practice. So read the book, start observing people's behaviour, and you will be surprised seeing your insight is actually making you free - on all levels.

Give this book a try and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did/do.

"But what we need to understand, if we are to understand ourselves, is our own impulses to engage in destructive or dominating behaviour towards others.
If we have such impulses, they originate in a lack of acceptance of some aspect of ourselves. Hostility towards others or the need to control others is projected self-contempt."
- from "How to be Free" by Joe Blow.

"Nobody creates ideas or truths. They simply exist. We either see them or we don't."
- from "How to be Free" by Joe Blow.

Have a great Monday!

Be Free!

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for your kind and appreciative comments on my book.

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"Spindelvævslys" on my coffee table

"Spindelvævslys" on my coffee table
"Bonded Sculpture" -(mobile cam shot)

Flowers of week 3

Flowers of week 3
I couldn't stand for these beautiful burned red coloured roses with a "rust/antic" look (can not be seen on pictures)

Waiting for my train in CPH Central Station

Waiting for my train in CPH Central Station
I couldn't just stand there and look at this beautiful scenery without taking a picture with my mobile phone.

My Scrapbook

My Scrapbook
My Scrapbook on my coffee table

Weekly flowers

Weekly flowers
Flowers of week 2

Rose

Rose
One of my drawings