‼️ Love Yourself As Your Life Depends On It by Kamal Ravikant ‼️

 31/∞

‼️ Love Yourself As Your Life Depends On It by Kamal Ravikant ‼️

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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I might be a bit harsh by awarding this book only 3 stars, but I do not feel like it deserves more. It reminded me of a book I read a loooooog time ago: The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Göethe (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers).

Both books will take you on suffering trip. The only difference is that Kamal helps you to find the way out by repeating yourself: “I love myself.”

I’m aware that to anybody who is currently suffering this critique won’t be sufficient. All people want to end their suffering. I see it rather as a skill which can be cultivated by daily practice.

The good points there were: to suffer be and to br imperfect is more than human. We all sometimes hit a certain point in our life when suffering is inevitable. It might be a breakup, thing are not going the way we wanted them to etc. 

The secret is: you can end your suffering now. By not focusing on the bad things in your life but to focus on things we can be grateful for.

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Some of our sufferings will appear irrelevant to ppl we decide to trust with our problems with.

It is sad. When I read Bukowski (who suffered a great deal not by his mistake but by evil imposed on him by other ppl). In my opinion this made him one of the most interesting modern writers.

In one of his poets (The Lion Heart and Roll the Dice) he says: “There is the way out, there is the light, the Gods will offer you chances, take them…”).

I believe that Kamal suffered greatly, but I would expect more depth, more introspection in his book.

But as I look into Buddhism. Paramahansa Yoginanda in his autobiography of yogi got in his book something that the entire Western society does not understand until very now. Mainly because the current Western society is based on Freud and the explanation on why the hell this happened to me?! Buddism does not require the explanation. It teaches its followers to accept and let be. In Buddhism there is no explanation needed.

In Western society we also tend to cling on the results and often become confused that “we” are the result itself.

We are not… It is just the ego. 

By daily practicing and repeating that we love ourselves we are embarking on the path to greatness. We must love ourselves in order to give and receive love in return.

Another truth in this book is that we are growing stronger with every suffering and experience encountered.

Kamal aslo mentiones breathing popularised by Wim Hof in recent years. Breathing is like the anchor. When we focus on our breathing we are getting away from all the distractions of the outer world and we are returning home, to ourselves, to who we really are.

Despite the 3 stars I would encourage you to have this permanently on your mind. Love yourself, no matter what!

Conclusion:

No conclusion this time. Let it flow and accept.

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Coming Up Next: 

A Perfect Planet narrated by David Attenborough

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