Journal Entry 1 by charbono from Clayton, Victoria Australia on Thursday, November 18, 2004

To be read. A self-published book by a local resident. This is the first copy registered on bookcrossing, so I will probably make it into a bookray when I've finished reading it.

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Journal Entry 2 by John3334 at Sculpture Park in York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Thursday, June 23, 2005

Released 6 yrs ago (6/23/2005 UTC) at Sculpture Park in York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom

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The author, Chris Pearce, paring down a lifetime of thoughts to their essence – he says at the end that he has spent 20 years writing this book and edited the contents down to 58 pages from about 900. So it doesn’t take long to read, but for me sometimes the bits missed out did stand out, so to speak, and leave me wanting a little more, like when he says that he teaches meditation – ‘it is simple, easy, beautiful and it works’ – but he never actually describes the method. Maybe there was a very good reason for that, but I would have been very interested to know and so felt frustrated by its absence. Still, he says later, ‘Take a look at all of the things you think are wrong, sad, unfair and so on. Look deep enough and in each and every one there is a lesson specifically for you. Learn the lesson, throw away the experience and get on with your life.’

He does a fair bit of this himself – looking at things that are sad, wrong or unfair – banks and the internet to name a couple, so it is good that he shares his own learning journey along the way. It is all shared with a certain reticence, and a constant reminder that this is all just one man’s opinion of moonlight.

This book is like a little stream. Not deep enough or wide enough to trouble anyone in a hurry to get past, but for anyone who takes the time to stop and look, they might be rewarded to see one or two gems glistening in this man’s opinion of moonlight.

My gem was the idea that we are always wealthy in terms of the wants we have for this moment (that’s how I read and understood it anyway). In terms of the wants I might have at any time, I might be lacking funds, or just getting by, or moderately well off. But in terms of my wants for this moment, I am outrageously wealthy.

I like any idea that brings me into present moment awareness, and this did the trick for me so far as money is concerned.

I released the book, paradoxically, in bright sunlight. But then again, that may be just my opinion.