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Life! Short and Sweet
Life Short and Sweet
Category:
Self-Help
Publisher: Self
Pages: 87
Copyright: Feb 3, 2010
Life short and sweet A Journey to Understanding by Myron Katsapas is the first of its kind and is truly an amazing spirituality and Self-Help book. Not only does it deliver a short interesting true life story, it also provides valuable insights to better living. The story portrays real information on emotions, life and how to live it successfully.
As the story unfolds the author reveals his deep thoughts and emotions while growing up. This illustrates how negative emotions and complexes are formed into character. At the same it provides information on how reality is concluded. There after the story follows as the author lived with all the concerns, complexes and negative emotions like anger, depression, fear and irritation and how they affected his life in various negative ways.
More importantly the author gives us an understanding of how to rid ourselves of all the negative emotions, concerns and complexes that we develop in our lives.
Resolving negative emotions and finding inner peace is only the first facet of the book. The story then moves onto reality and how our understanding of reality can dictate our lives. The concepts revolved around reality are truly remarkable. Myron Katsapas touches base on Philosophy from Socrates and Einstein and in doing so relays an ultimate understanding about life, which when understood enables us to live enlightened lives.
What’s even more fascinating is that you see how the previously applied principles and concepts clearly produce a successful life in every way.
Life Short and Sweet has set a new standard for spirituality and Self help books. Reading a self help book has never been so enjoyable and thought provoking.
Introduction.
Before I set out to write this book, I was living in Dubai, and was there when my sister Angela Mary Katsapas took her life. Life was too difficult for my sister, and she had lived for a long time in emotional turmoil. Soon after I received the news, I moved to London to spend some time with my remaining sisters Bianca and Vanessa.
While walking the streets of London, I saw so many people burdened with so many concerns, just pushing through their lives.
In November of 2009, while staying in Angela’s old apartment, I found a book on her shelf about motivating your mind. The book was 500 pages long, and was written by a well known psychologist. While reading it, I found my sister’s photo which she had used as a bookmark, showing that she had stopped reading at page 50. The book was 500 pages of self-tests and statistics. In my opinion, if you could finish this book, then you never had a problem with motivation in the first place.
This was when I got the idea to write my book, to convey my understanding of the ultimate truths about life and emotions, and to make life easier for all who would read it. I wanted the book to be “short and sweet,” and at the same time exciting and meaningful. I wanted to focus on specific events in my life and use my own story as an instrument to communicate this understanding to others. I am convinced that you will find my story enjoyable to read and easy to relate to, and that it will provoke in you healing thoughts about many aspects of your life and how best to live it. Hence the title, Life! Short & Sweet, A Journey to Understanding.
My story starts out in South Africa, and takes the reader on an emotional journey, ending with what I discovered about the ultimate truths of life that changed not only my life, but also my world, and brought me emotional peace.
Those who have read the book have found it to be inspirational and life enhancing. If someone is living in turmoil, hopefully my story will inspire them to begin their own journey of self-conquest. Though my writing style may seem primitive and strange at first, I assure you that by the time you have finished the book, you will have learned some precious truths that can bring you real and lasting happiness.
Excerpt
This quote sums up my book and its purpose, but not only do i persuade you, i give you the information you need to acquire virtue...
“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.”
- Socrates
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