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One of the greatest diseases of today is inner emptiness, which lies at the base of many people's dissatisfaction with life. For these dissatisfied people, the psychologist's door is open. But psychology assumes we are complete as we are, and, moreover, that we are pursuing happiness or a balanced life. Yet it is not unhappiness or lack of balance that is causing our inner emptiness, it is our incompleteness. Many seekers feel this incompleteness and embark on a journey of self-development, in order to reach what we could and should be. However, the self-development needed to become complete is only the higher part of the journey. What is most commonly overlooked is one extremely basic area with which this book is largely concerned: facing your life and then, actually having your own life. Many seekers of truth, wisdom, and self-development give up having a full, real life, in their quest for consciousness awakening, or illumination. This is a mistake, for without a full vibrant life, which involves a constant inner vitality or activity, there is no base, no ground in which the roots of higher development can establish themselves. So, actually having your life is a prerequisite for the quest to develop the higher faculties and become a whole, full person. But it is not easy, for without self-acceptance - which means accepting and being at peace with what you cannot change in yourself, particularly your weaknesses - you cannot have a life at all. And without a life, your journey will operate in a vacuum, and you will go around in circles. And so, this book is about confronting the need to have your life and learning self-acceptance. Only from this base can the journey begin. The book is primarily an original, current group of related essays, but it is also eclectic and draws on various sources, which give it a frame of reference, body, and support. Just to name a few of such influential sources and philosophers: Martin Heidegger Heraclitus the Obscure R. D. Laing P.D. Ouspensky & G.I. Gurdjieff Existential philosophy Zen Buddhism Kundalini Sufism Quantum physics Hasidic philosophy

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