No Attachments, No Aversions: The Autobiography of a Master [Paperback]

Lester Levenson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2003

This compelling, rivetting book will take you step by step into what Lester was discovering and feeling during his own personal quest towards realization. The book covers Lester's most intimate feelings about life before consciousness and then after his awakening. Lester shares with the reader the inner process he used to change a death sentence into a life of complete joy, fulfillment and peace. You will find yourself reading this book again and again. Each time, you will discover something profound that will help you in your own personal quest towards freedom. This book is truly a lifetime gift that will keep on giving to all who read it.

Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Lawrence Crane Enterprises, Inc. (January 2003)
• ISBN-10: 0971175519
• ISBN-13: 978-0971175518
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

In 1952, after being sent home by his doctors to die, Lester realized two TRUTHS that literally saved his life.

The first is that his own feelings were the cause of all of his problems, and not the world or the people in it, as he had previously thought. He also realized his own negative feelings were what he had struggled so hard and long against. And, this struggle was what had destroyed his health and caused him to suffer in every way.

The second truth is he discovered he had the inborn ability to let go of his negative feelings. He discovered how to completely discharge them and suppressing, coping and venting as he had previously done, he discovered how to totally release them. This put an end to his struggle! He found permanent happiness. And, he found the more he released his negative feelings, the happier and healthier he became. In fact, within three months he was completely well, and he stayed well for over 40 more years!

Lester discovered something else - every aspect of his live fot better, too. A short time later he became a millionaire!

You know from your own experience, that when too many negative feelings build up in you, you feel anxious, uncomfortable and unhappy. The first thing you'll try to do is get away from them. You'll do this by suppressing them (hiding them from yourself is the worst thing you can do), coping with them (trying to escape their effects by various means), or by venting them.

Customer Reviews

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87 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars On the Road to Freedom, August 23, 2003

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"silkyreyna" (Sherman Oaks, Ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Attachments, No Aversions: The Autobiography of a Master (Paperback)

A little over a year ago, I read Lester's autobiography. As the Master Jesus said over 2000 years ago when speaking of miracles, "These things you can do also", Lester found the way to heal body, mind and spirit in our contemporary times. He tells of a practical method to achieve the same. This book has changed my life. I recommend Lester's story to people of all ages. My entire family, from ages 14 to 92, have learned what Lester learned and have many thanks to give.
I have read many books in the self help field, both personally and academically. The difference between gathering data and theory is having the actual experience. Nothing compares to this. I have read Deepok Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Jean Houston, Sandra Ingerman and many theorists in psychology from Freud to Jung. The difference is simply this: Lester explains how he came upon a method of healing that came from the inside out and how in a very short time, he accomplished what everyone just tells us about, he totally healed his life on all levels. Lester paves the way to mastership for us all. It is not just another book to gather information. You'll have the road to freedom paved right before your eyes. 5 stars doesn't do it justice. 10 stars is more like it.

41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When the student is ready... the teacher appears., May 27, 2004

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P. DAVIS "phil36297" (Pisgah Forest, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Attachments, No Aversions: The Autobiography of a Master (Paperback)

Not everyone will like this book. It is, in fact, short. Lester is not a particularly gifted writer. And his story starts slowly and wanders the first half of the book. With that said, it is also one of the most powerful and life changing books I've read. It's precisely because Lester's story is told so genuinely and honestly that I could relate to it so well. He was a typical compulsive, workaholic businessman who pushed himself relentlessly until he became a physical and emotional trainwreck by age 43- and found himself facing a premature death. With dogged determination, he decided to set his mind on nothing else but discovering the true meaning and essense of life. His findings/revelations produced such a profound sense of peace in himself that he lived another 40 years and touched a lot of people's lives. I think you would enjoy this book tremendously if your current belief system causes you angst (mine did) and you are searching for a new or better framework upon which to base your life.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inner Peace and Love, July 26, 2003

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Vinny Pinto (Frederick, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Attachments, No Aversions: The Autobiography of a Master (Paperback)

This book is Lester's recounting of his life before and after he managed to deftly slip into a flow of grace and ease. He tells the story of growing up and struggling in the early part of the 20th century, only to find, by his early forties, some measure external success but incredible inner unease and ill health, culminating in a near-fatal heart attack which was virtualy a death sentence... or at least it was a death sentence until Lester learned to start allowing Love and Grace into his heart, and to let go of trying to control life and himself. This book is his tale of that evolution and eventual break to freedom.

I have read this book many times over, and often loan my copy to friends. I feel that this book is great, particularly Lester's recounting of his enlightenment experience and the effortless, easeful flow of his existence while in that state of simply allowing God/Being to handle what we call "Life". In my opinion, this narrative lends a great insight to the qualities or "frequencies" of being in that flux of love and grace, and also, by contrast, when describing some earlier parts of his life, a good sense of how it feels when not in that flow of grace.

Bottom line: if you are at all a spiritual seeker, I suggest that you may wish to read this book; I can almost guarantee that there will be some great gems in it for you!