The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose by Matthew KellyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I do not discriminate any book by its cover or what is written in it. As a Muslim, I don’t mind reading non-Islamic books as this book “The Rhythm Of Life” was recommended by my catholic friend, when I give him Qur’an to read because I have schooled him about Bible that he can not eat pork: Those who want to know where it says in the Bible “Leviticus 11:: NIV. You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud. … And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
Here is my review on this book:
Matthew Kelly does not need more deserving accolades from me. I give them anyway and for sure this is a five-star book. But there are some lingering questions I have that I think he needs to address. Rather than write volumes of a review I will focus mostly on those questions in a somewhat random manner. On the idea that life is choices, does a three-year-old choose to be molested? Does an infant choose to be decapitated by mentally ill adults set on revenge toward each other (called collateral damage by some)? Regarding the use of the word illusion, this works both ways and the illusion of value from hype artists needs to be addressed in terms of what is their set of values? This is complex as even the author implies that there is a value placed on how we need to be.
On one hand, the author says, “We all need people in our lives who raise our standards, remind us of our essential purpose and challenge us to become the-best version-of-ourselves” yet, on the other hand, he talks of we long to be that someone who can listen without trying to fix, change, or move the other person. This dichotomy needs to be clarified. For sure I liked Kelly’s comments on discernment. Discernment is a critical word. In my experience synthetic telepathy interferes with discernment. The author points out how all the bombardment of advertising etc., in a similar way to synthetic telepathy, as interfering with our discernment in living who we are. For sure as Matthew says we cannot make decisions in a vacuum.
When the taxpayer-funded oligarchy occult mind-control puppets say, “I own your soul” this may well in my experience mean, based on Kelly’s thesis, that they own/owned my journey. This taken from Kelly’s slogan, “The Journey of the Soul.”
Loved Matthew’s comments on “being” includes consisting not only of who you are now but also of who you are capable of becoming at any moment in the future. Having said that, I often wondered throughout the book, since all is an illusion, how much of what he presents is his own wishful thinking or illusion? As the author says, “The image is an illusion. The light is the truth.” When the author says, “A person who is completely dedicated to the light is capable of anything” now the question, is that an illusion? The demarcation between what is an illusion and what is not easy to discern.
On the comment “…embrace your God.” This is an interesting statement here because the author has defined God in other sentences. Here is he calling God each person’s ultimate reality as they each see it?
Enough questions, you get five stars and the book is highly recommended.
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