Awaken The Giant Within

This book changed my life, the way I pursue my dreams, the way I perceive people. I have read this over and over and continue to refer to it regularly.

In a word? Meta-cognition. Don't get me wrong, there are some nuggets and interesting heuristics, but it's massively redundant and a slog to get through 500 pages of anecdotes mixed with sales pitches.

I quit smoking using his method!!! That alone earns it 5 stars in my opinion!

You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.

Those huge stars have lasted for millions of years by taking care never to absorb any of the fiery rays lovers all over the world send up at them night after night. To avoid that, the star generates so much heat inside itself that it shatters the rays into a thousand pieces. Any look it receives is immediately repulsed, reflected back onto the earth, like a trick done with mirrors. That is the reason the stars shine so brightly at night.

It doesn’t matter to me what you did, there are some things in life that shouldn’t be given so much importance, if they don’t change what is essential. What you’ve told me hasn’t changed the way I think; I’ll say again, I would be delegated to be your companion for the rest of your life-but you must think over very carefully whether I am the man for you or not.

She died in a Seattle hospital room, the blind man sitting beside the bed and holding on to her hand. They’d married, lived and worked together, slept together — had sex, sure — and then the blind man had to bury her. All this without his having ever seen what the goddamned woman looked like. It was beyond my understanding.

Despite the man’s thoughts on the blind man’s predicament, it is revealed later on that he, compared with the blind man, is the one less capable of seeing.

The story tells of a man’s ability to transcend beyond his limitations.

With a twisting plot, and some moments of inspired dialogue and sizzling romance, this book will keep most readers engaged, but some pacing and plotting missteps keep it from being great — not Lowell at her finest.

Romantic suspense-favorite Lowell offers a generally intriguing, mostly fast-paced story set against the backdrop of Mexican warlords and the mythical end-of-the-world Mayan calendar.

With a twisting plot, and some moments of inspired dialogue and sizzling romance, this book will keep most readers engaged, but some pacing and plotting missteps keep it from being great — not Lowell at her finest.