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Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. Loss is unavoidable; grief isn't. Death is certain. And life? Well, life isn't certain. Its uncertainty, unpredictability, even its irrationality, make it what it is. Often, we run blindly into fire, we step on snakes, we get entangled in snares—these are the fires of desire, the snakes of attachment and the snares of jealousy and covetousness. If we are bitten, burnt and hurt, we call it suffering, and believe it to be the way of life, when, in fact, we are mistaking our pain for our suffering. We have little control over the former but the latter is almost entirely in our hands. We can take things in our stride or be tossed on the tide. All it takes is to be able to open our eyes. This choice, we must remember, is ours; always. Om Swami's new book marks the way to enlightenment through mindful thinking.

©2020 Om Swami (P)2024 Audible Singapore Private Limited Spirituality
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I have read this book multiple times. Do keep multiple paper copies of all Swami Ji's books.
Must admit one has to listen to it over and over again.
This book has a lot of nuggets of wisdom to live a relevant life in this world.
He has split the book in three sections with multiple chapters in each section.

It has a lot of "wit" and each chapter offers me a totally new/ unique insight to everyday problems of life.
This book is narrated exceptionally well.

I hope you get to see HIM as HE is like the "brightest Sun" on the darkest corner of south pole.
S Misra

Exceptional way of thinking and perfectly narrated

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