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Fluke
- Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
- By: Brian Klaas
- Narrated by: Brian Klaas
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas takes a deep-dive into the phenomenon of random chance and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people’s neat and tidy version of reality. The book’s argument is that we willfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives—and our societies—could be radically different.
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brain breaking in a good way
- By stacey a shapiro on 03-07-24
- Fluke
- Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
- By: Brian Klaas
- Narrated by: Brian Klaas
The surprise of combining lack of control with a new level of freedom adventure and joy
Reviewed: 03-04-24
Great
Only thing he misses is the grace we receive when we acknowledge our lack of control. And surrender to the larger adventure of an infinite game of choosing to be useful. Allowing spirit to make art with our life.
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Elon Musk
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
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When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.
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megalomania on display
- By JP on 09-12-23
- Elon Musk
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
Exciting and crazy SOB
Reviewed: 11-26-23
Love his outrageous “brilliance and go for it” and AI champion for humans. A Scary crazy guy and gift
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Living Untethered
- Beyond the Human Predicament
- By: Michael A. Singer
- Narrated by: Michael A. Singer
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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When our sense of wholeness depends on things or people outside ourselves—whether it's a coveted job, a new house, a lavish vacation, or even a new relationship—sooner or later we're bound to feel unsatisfied. But how do we embark on this inner journey? Living Untethered is the book to reach for. It provides clear guidance for moving beyond the thoughts, feelings, and habits that keep you stuck—so you can heal the pain of the past and let your spirit soar. It's time to stop struggling and start experiencing.
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Good but mostly repeat
- By Stephanie Herndon on 05-30-22
- Living Untethered
- Beyond the Human Predicament
- By: Michael A. Singer
- Narrated by: Michael A. Singer
One The BEST books on Enlightenment
Reviewed: 10-11-23
I’ve “read them all”. This is Great. and though the initial set up chapters (proving we have no “real” control over the world) are very strong, it’s the last chapters pointing to the practices of release, that are amazing. Read it
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Stillness Speaks
- Stillness amidst the World
- By: Eckhart Tolle
- Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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This long-awaited second book by renowned spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle goes deeper into the teachings so eloquently and clearly expressed in his first book, The Power of Now.
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Brilliant
- By YogaGirl on 06-03-07
- Stillness Speaks
- Stillness amidst the World
- By: Eckhart Tolle
- Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle
Awaken from me-me the unsatisfiable personal self.
Reviewed: 07-03-23
Awaken not Fix my resistance to life’s problems
And my life’s wasted & endless search for The Fix
Is over.
The Stones nailed it:
Can’t get no satisfaction
Wake Up
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No Self, No Problem
- How Neuropsychology is Catching Up to Buddhism
- By: Chris Niebauer PhD
- Narrated by: Charlie Varon
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
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In this groundbreaking audiobook, neuropsychology professor Chris Niebauer explains how after decades of research on the brain, Western science may have inadvertently confirmed a fundamental tenet of Buddhism: anatta, or the doctrine of "no self". Niebauer shows how findings in neuropsychology suggest that our sense of self is actually an illusion created by the left side of the brain and that it exists in the same way a mirage in the middle of the desert exists: as a thought rather than a thing.
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Everyone should be reading this!
- By Mary Lou on 01-02-20
- No Self, No Problem
- How Neuropsychology is Catching Up to Buddhism
- By: Chris Niebauer PhD
- Narrated by: Charlie Varon
Awakening not fixing yourself
Reviewed: 01-03-22
So huge. After years of Many books, meditation, coaching etc. Having heard these ideas in different forms. This distinction allows me to dis identify from the narrative of the left brain. The endless message of “not enoughness” and perceived separateness in a way more accessible than so many other (correct) ineffective messages suggesting it’s a lifetime of self improvement to be free of the suffering created by this “mechanism” of the brain. Buy it. Oh my.
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Essential Meditations with Eckhart Tolle
- Guided Sessions and Practical Teachings
- By: Eckhart Tolle
- Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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We tend to think of meditation as a formal practice we block time out for each day. But what if every moment of your life was your meditation? For Eckhart Tolle, meditation shouldn't be approached as a chore or a means to an end. Rather, meditation is something that you live. "The aim of meditation," states Eckhart, "is that it eventually becomes your normal state of consciousness." Essential Meditations with Eckhart Tolle points the way toward this quiet, constant state of Presence - where practice gives way to the realization of your innermost identity.
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Very good
- By Matthew Jackson on 03-06-20
- Essential Meditations with Eckhart Tolle
- Guided Sessions and Practical Teachings
- By: Eckhart Tolle
- Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle
Awakening not fixing the ego self
Reviewed: 10-09-21
Too often wasting time “getting better”
Notice the Unobserved ego self … not fix it
Discover the Unrealized Presence
Like lucid dreaming perhaps discover
LUCID LIVING in and as this Presence u already are so hidden by our habit of identification with thot.
Like me u may have read Tolle before but not ready
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In Love with the World
- A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
- By: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Helen Tworkov
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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At 36 years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries. Then one night, telling no one, he slipped out of his monastery in India with the intention of spending the next four years on a wandering retreat, following the ancient practice of holy mendicants. His goal was to throw off his titles and roles in order to explore the deepest aspects of his being.
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A great story cut short
- By Reader001 on 05-22-19
- In Love with the World
- A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
- By: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Helen Tworkov
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
Pause for the Presence
Reviewed: 03-09-21
Awareness and spacious emptiness contrast with the point of view(ing) of the dualistic seeing and seeking of my ego self. Not-enough ness forever. But the sign on the pub says free beer tomorrow.
What Wilber terms “the Great Search” is the automatic endless dissatisfaction (Dukkha) condition of that ego. Vs Pausing for the Presence for Awareness as a new way of being related in a non dualistic non-transactional non-strategy of Awakening. Never fixed always faithful. At least that’s me.
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The Fix
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Kyf Brewer, Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself. Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling. Decker and his team can find absolutely no connection between the shooter - a family man with a successful consulting business - and his victim, a schoolteacher.
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The Fix
- By BookReader on 05-21-18
- The Fix
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Kyf Brewer, Orlagh Cassidy
Disappointing
Reviewed: 10-31-20
Hard to believe I finished it. The forced way things were hidden and tediously drawn out. The cardboard characters and inane dialog. Oh my
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Guided Meditations
- Evoking the Divine Ground of Your Being
- By: Adyashanti
- Narrated by: Adyashanti
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
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Beneath all our bustling thoughts and the distracting dramas of the world, an ever-present stillness beckons us to our true home. "Meditation is a tool for returning to our essential nature," says Adyashanti. With Guided Meditations, this groundbreaking spiritual teacher offers four immersive audio sessions of meditations created to enrich your practice and help you become a more open, loving, and benevolent presence in the world.
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Disappointed
- By Sara on 11-03-16
- Guided Meditations
- Evoking the Divine Ground of Your Being
- By: Adyashanti
- Narrated by: Adyashanti
Help for long time meditators
Reviewed: 10-22-20
With this guidance you will access spaces of awareness you have missed.
Thinking captures us too often and we are apt to stay at the limits of our unseen meditation limits.
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Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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In Being Mortal, best-selling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit.
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A Walk through the Valley of the Shadow
- By George on 11-02-14
- Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Important book.
Reviewed: 05-25-20
Reading it again at 80 is a very different experience. Read it and share it
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