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How to be free of unhappiness in an unhappy world. It can be done! Eight essays on the causes of unhappiness and the spiritual process of 'dying for life'. This way of practical self-knowledge ultimately brings freedom from fear and liberation from pervasive discontent. How to square living in this world with the circle of life. Explains karma (a great mystery) and the cosmic principle behind it. A 'long-range' view of our civilisation. How we got into this mess. How to live in this world without compromise. Practical advice. Barry Long's incisive method makes therapy look like a blunt knife. The earth awaits a revolution in consciousness as day by day discontent grows around the world. But unhappiness, accepted as normal, is not a natural part of life. Those willing to rid themselves of unhappiness may go through hell on earth to be free. But in them a new consciousness is born. It dawns with the discovery that only fear dies. This book contains a profound spiritual teaching which it is not at all abstract or remote but directly useful to anyone trying to look for truth in this world. Barry Long redirects our attention back to the source of all problems - ourselves. He challenges us: Why do we insist on having the right to be unhappy? First we are shown how to deal moment-to-moment with what makes us discontented so that we can practice staying free of it. Then Barry Long examines the roots of unhappiness and how it attaches itself to us from an early age. He describes how this preoccupation with discontent is played out in the world at large, in politics and the media. There is a prophetic section on the unholy alliance of the media and the politicians - written nearly 20 years ago, but the implications of what is said here become more obvious every day. The later essays are about where responsibility lies, and why we must become more responsible for ourselves. There is a chapter about living under the Law of Life, or Karma. And the final essay in the book describes the drama of life from conception to death and beyond, and how we enter the mysteries of living and dying. This knowledge holds the secret of final liberation from the ills of the human condition.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #201502 in Books
• Published on: 1994-10-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 147 pages

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Only Fear Dies; The end of unhappiness
Reading this book is an incredible inner experience. It gives the reader an amazing (and practical) to be free from all unhappiness. Barry Long's powerful and refreshingly accessible approach as a writer really "hits home" to a westerner in the midst of so many Eastern spiritual authors. Living the truths imparted in Only Fear Dies is a beautiful way of life, independant of tradition, religion and dogma this book is truly a modern master piece.

What's wrong with me? The answer.
This book describes what's wrong with you.
The very act of becoming conscious of what's wrong with you is the beginning of your starting to put it right.
As you start to put things right you discover, to your own joy and amazement, that only fear dies.
You don't. And never will ......