A practical manual for the understanding of oneself. Self-Knowledge is the basis for relationship and the end of human loneliness. Learn to understand your self on your own—not according to someone else's authority and rules. Learn how the source of suffering is your own self in its fears and desires, and how to end the loneliness and pain. Self-knowledge, self-understanding techniques, self-inventories. Learn that you share an evolutionary, biological and species history with all human beings, as well as your own family, cultural and personal heredity. Some of your heritage is good to enjoy—food, sex, sunlight. Some of your inheritance you may want to change, stop acting on, before we all self-destruct as well as go on suffering—violence, greed. YOUR HERITAGE NEED NOT RULE YOU.
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July 26, 2013 -
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- ISBN: 9781884158391
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- ISBN: 9781884158391
- File size: 5496 KB
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- English
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Booklist
March 15, 2013
Grades 9-12 This self-help manual can best be described as a psychological survival guide for the stage of life that can often be the most confusing and challenging: the teenage years. Carlson, a seasoned author of young adult nonfiction, argues that there is no one magic key that unlocks a happy existence and that there is no self that one must find, as many other books in this genre claim. She encourages readers to consider the commonalities between all humans and also the special sets of inherited circumstances that are not only unique to each person but inescapable. Relinquishing fear and self-doubt and strengthening relationships are common themes. Carlson incorporates many philosophies, including Christianity, Buddhism, postmodernist thought, and hard science. Illustrations by Nicklaus tease out the most meaningful quotes from the text to bring abstractions into an understandable and visual format. A good starting place for practical and comprehensive tools in the counteracting of common teen problems, such as alienation and insecurity.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)
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