Status: Stopped at page 50

Recommend: No

Review: Although there were certainly a few gem quotes, I couldn't escape the feeling that this was just the re-hashing of an LSD trip. The author seems very coy about the truth of the story, which bugs me. Are you saying this depth of consciousness is truly possible (flying over the Earth in your mind?) or is it a metaphor? I didn't like the middle ground tease that the book presents. I'm in if the author really believes this happened (no matter how many drugs he had to take to get there). If it's just a metaphor, well...I have a much more important book that gets me in a state of awareness. Not knowing which it was ended my journey early with this book. I just didn't want to feel like a fool.

Quotes:

Use whatever knowledge you have but see its limitations. Knowledge alone does not suffice; it has no heart. No amount of knowledge will nourish or sustain your spirit; it can never bring you ultimate happiness or peace. Life requires more than knowledge; it requires intense feeling and constant energy. Life demands right action if knowledge is to come alive. (pg. 19)

The warrior acts...and the fool only reacts. (pg. 20)

When you become fully responsible for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it means to be a warrior. (pg. 28)

The world was peopled with minds, whirling faster than any wind, in search of distraction and escape from the predicament of change, the dilemma of life and death - seeking purpose, security, enjoyment, trying to make sense of the mystery. Everyone everywhere lived a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they never turned. And the source of it all was the human mind. (pg. 42)