One part says, “It is as easy to manifest one dollar as it is to manifest one million dollars.” What?! The first could be nothing other than millions of people thinking positive thoughts in concentric rings and the other was the result of millions of people thinking negative thoughts - and what a hero Herbert Hoover was in his one man attempt to try and turn round the thought patterns of a nation by telling everybody that the economy was on the turn. You gain the weight of the book, because the content is as nebulous and worthless as it gets. It promotes the self-absorbed, materialistic, shallow outlook of predominantly rich white people to the exclusion of the rest of the planet - while managing to blame them for their problems and justify those in possession of the Secret for not using their visualized wealth to promote social change. by Atria Books. Real Stories. There is no gray area with this one. Favorite Passages from February 2021 Re-reading. It was delivered today and had trouble reading it!! [ But of course the something like the boom in London property prices or the Wall street crash and subsequent Great Depression do indeed demonstrate the power of positive thinking. True, the average Oprah-watching housewife in this country wasn't raised by a Taoist Tai Chi instructor and grew up reading Kerouac and Kant. Thank you for sharing this. However, I listened to the audio version. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thatâs right for you for free. it was truly life changing. Ok, I'm on board with that. This book reveals the greatest discovery a human being can ever make, and shows you the way out of negativity, problems, and what you don’t want, to a life of permanent happiness and bliss.”—From The Greatest Secret. This book sounds appalling. And perhaps, what is common sense to me, is a completely novel idea to mainstream America? Personally, I do know people whom have read this book and swear that it has changed their lives dramatically. Overview: The Secret is a self-help book about the power of positive thinking by Rhonda Byrne. As the story progresses he finds grounds to incarcerate more and more of the town's population in his asylum until everybody has been finally committed. apparently there is a dvd also that i don't even think i could stomach. However, for this particular reader, The Secret was not the philosophical powerhouse that sensationalism has made it out to be. Rhonda was born in Australia and now lives in California. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Jack Canfield (whose involvement should turn you off automatically) didn't really sit around staring at the ceiling. However, I listened to the audio version. That book is at the top of every bestseller list and it's total crap. C'mon people, positive thinking has been written about in dozens if not hundreds of books and they were much better written than this drivel! I am wary of books that tease you with various "secrets" and reveals. so here's the concept behind "The Secret". Even if it is a patronizingly simple text like The Secret. I just can't understand why everyone is so enthralled with it. I promised to listen to the whole book on CD, and as I listened, the connections between what the author is trying to communicate, and what many world religions try to communicate is huge. omg glad I read this before hitting the "buy" button. [ I don't know, presumably Abraham Lincoln successfully visualised the American Civil War into existence or something, and when people mention Henry Ford in this kind of context you can be pretty sure they are not thinking of his determination to set up a rubber plantation, insisting on having the rubber trees planted so close together that parasites infested the whole lot. I hate, hate, hate this book with absolute passion. If you constantly talk about being broke, or sick, or depressed, then that's what you will get. The Oprah phenomenon amazes me sometimes. Where the attention goes, the energy flows. The ultimate key to end suffering and discover lasting happiness. I've known that since I was a child. They were not wrong. No, numbfucker, they won't. And so it would seem a preface is very much in order. According to the author, people who are raped, killed, maimed, tortured - they all bring it on themselves with their negative thoughts. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I don't want to change my life, I said. One part says, “It is as e. Call me jaded, but these people have been drinking the kool aid. Nothing has changed - it is as true today as it ever was. Oh dear, yet again I have fallen prey to my rule that if I begin to spout opinions about a book on the basis of what other people have said, I have to read it. The Secret is perhaps best summarized in an entirely separate work, the Strangest Secret, which is an audio presentation by Earl Nightingale where he demands âyou must control your thoughts.â Rhonda Byrne then explains by controlling your thoughts and ensuring that they are of a positive nature, anything, in any aspect of life, is achievable. It says that you simply need to ask, believe, and receive whatever you want from the catalog of the universe. I like to re-read The Secret at least once a year. I'm listening to this on audio because my daughter insists I need it in my life. This book is so inspirational! Rhonda Byrne always makes a beautiful book {inside & out ð}, â¢â¢ I always go for the hard copies of all of Rhonda Byrneâs books ð, I cannot read this on Kindle. At first I was a bit intrigued; honestly, it's "philosophy" is basic common sense: whatever energy you put out, you receive, good or bad. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.”, “There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. In hindsight, I feel I was too kind with this book, it makes far more sense simply to describe it as evil. omg glad I read this before hitting the "buy" button. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. More specifically, The Secret explains that like things attract, so positive, can do thoughts create positive outcomes while negative thoughts would create. too bad I didn't use it to make millions like this chick! I thought from the reviews of friends that it was pretty obvious stuff. This book is so inspirational! No offense to the guys who like kindle, I also like and have kindle. Overall, the Secret, aka, the Law of Atttraction has a great message: like attracts like. Ick. Unable to add item to List. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. So. But no, it goes further. You need more optimism in your life, they said. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. I have heard many of the ideas from various authors, eg Eckhart Tolle, in a more cryptic way, but this book puts it all together in clear & simple writing. It'll change your life, they said. It's so much easier to blame others. I don't understand how these people can be reviewing a book that's not been released yet. Speaking with Adam Grant feels like having your brain sandblasted, in a pleasant sort of way. The Secret Documentary; The Secret: Dare to Dream; Gifts for You. Hundreds and hundreds of quotes that loosely back the statements she makes. Oops. So hard to get in to and gave up after chapter 2. I am wary of books that tease you with various "secrets" and reveals that can then be summed up in one sentence on twitter. However, implicit in the teachings of the Secret is the idea that our current place in life is not good enough, that we need to create something in the future that will in turn complete us (better job, more money, new relationship, etc), and make us feel whole. You attract bad things to you through your negative thoughts. With Katie Holmes, Josh Lucas, Celia Weston, Jerry O'Connell. Think bad thoug. Not to mention the 'facts' they assert don't have citations to lend those assertions the slightest hint of credibility. I was so excited to finally get this book! My review in English first and then in Arabic-مراجعتى للكتاب بالانجليزي و بعدها مراجعتى بالعربي. I had pre-ordered the Kindle which I started reading at 5 past midnight on its release. Read this book, they said. It has no size adjustment on the font. Please try again. Then he realises that what he has done is also completely insane so he has himself locked up to. [As with quantum physics, the concepts of visualisation and the Placebo effect are invoked to demonstrate the power of the mind. I am not a religious person. The Secret is perhaps best summarized in an entirely separate work, the Strangest Secret, which is an audio presentation by Earl Nightingale where he demands “you must control your thoughts.” Rhonda Byrne then explains by controlling your thoughts and ensuring that they are of a positive nature, anything, in any aspect of life, is achievable. Does this book contain inappropriate content? [ the universe although capable of understanding human thought does so in a limited way understanding 'I don't want debt' and 'I want debt' to mean one and the same thing, maybe this is a hang over from Neuro-Linguistic Programming? Good for them! It has some good advice but is basically one note and focuses way too much on materialism for my liking. “The Secret showed you how to create anything you want to be, do, or have. Fuck you, I said. Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? It just lists other people's work as quotations. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. [there was a nice short story I once read about a psychiatrist returning to his home town after a distinguished career in Europe to open an insane asylum. I just can't understand why everyone is so enthralled with it. To see what your friends thought of this book. This book has also taught me that I don't need to care about other people; if they don't get what they want it isn't anything to with me or anything to do with society being fair o. I am not a religious person. There are parts that I think are simplistic. Rhonda Byrne is an Australian television writer and producer, best known for her New Thought works, “Be grateful for what you have now. More specifically, The Secret explains that like things attract, so positive, can do thoughts create positive outcomes while negative thoughts would create that negative reality. I own the book, audio book, and film. ”, Smile or Die How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World, "Santa Claus on Prozac, at Disneyland, getting laid", Einstein scribbled his theory of happiness, Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness, Adam Grant Wants You to Rethink What (You Think) You Know. Name: The Secret Author: Rhonda Byrne Download Audio Book For Free at: Audible Book available in English at: Flipkart, Amazon Book available in Hindi at: Flipkart, Amazon Book size: 224 pages. This is part of the way that, [ not that I have anything against thinking nice thoughts, cultivating a feeling of gratitude and so on as ends in themselves, simply as a mechanistic means to material ends, [I don't know whether we emit frequencies at the quantum level, and if we did what would the implications be of changing it, they would be presumably considerably weirder than what Byrne imagines, [Famous for his ability to attract soul mates to himself.
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