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The Question to Life's Answers: Spirituality Beyond Belief

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I relished reading this book! It is new and unique. The answers that we collect are sandbags for our hot air balloon. The truest freedoms that I have felt have occurred after a deep introspection in what I thought was solid and real, only to find out that it was ephemeral and unreal. Answers are often bondage whereas questions lead the way to freedom and even these concepts are questioned within the pages of this book. A must read for those serious about relinquishing the old and making way for the new.

Harrison's book opened my eyes to the fact that it's good not to have all the answers. What is really important is that you continue looking for them. It's important that people keep on questioning how things work and how they themselves work. However Harrison stresses the fact that, "It is not an intellectual question we have come to, but rather the expression of beingness and freshness--the joy of inquiry." He reminds us that everything and everyone is interconnected. He asks us to challenge what we know and to contemplate what we don't know. I have never read anything that made me feel so intellectually and spiritually awakened and at peace at the same time. This book is definitely a major stepping-stone on the path to spirituality.

While this review may not be all that popular with the folks at Amazon.com, I believe that this book could, if not should, be your last spiritual book purchase. Harrison points out that buying such books are part of a continuing pattern and life process oriented around the idea that there is something fundamentally wrong with yourself, that you are searching for THE answer, when the answer is just who you are as you are. His antidote is similar, if not identical, with the taoist idea of wu wei, doing nothing, that the process of doing something is where we all go wrong, where we exchange a real "now" world with that of our psychological confusion, seeking happiness, and seeking survival. Harrison says that since there is really nothing you can do about it anyway, just give it up, SEE who you are as you.