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| Happier Than God: Turn Ordinary Life into an Extraordinary Experience | 
 enlarge | Author: Neale Donald Walsch
Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 6369
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 1571745769
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9781571745767
ASIN: 1571745769
Publication Date: February 29, 2008
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Since the publication of his stunning worldwide bestseller Conversations with God (over two and a half years on the New York Times list; now published in 37 languages), Walsch has been telling readers that a new understanding of God can change lives and change the world. Now, in this new book, he expands on that theme by exploring how ordinary people can work in direct collaboration with God to transform their everyday lives into extraordinary experiences. This is not a book of spiritual theory. It provides a plan that can change lives. Included here is a program that Walsch calls ''17 Steps to being Happier Than God,'' a plan that combines the best of the conceptual truths of his 9-book Conversations with God series with the clearest description yet of how to turn those concepts into practical tools for altering life for the better--forever.
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 Finding happiness through love of God, Others & Self! February 17, 2008
181 out of 188 found this review helpful
I have to say, the title of this book, "Happier than God," kind of threw me at first. But it was written by Neale Donald Walsch, and I really liked his Conversations with God books, so I thought I'd give the book a chance. I'm glad I did!
I still might have used a different title, but the points he makes are very good. He notes that what is missing from all the current talk about the Law of Attraction (due to the success of The Secret) is God. He explains that some people have misinterpreted the Law to mean you should put all your faith in yourself - in other words, you don't need God. All you've got to do is use the power of your thoughts to attract to you whatever you want.
In this book, he explains God's role in the process of personal creation. He notes that the ability to create your reality is an expression of God. He says the process really has 3 parts: the first has to do with God, the second has to do with you, and the third with you and God together. He then expounds on how personal creation really works.
He also indicates that the law of attraction works most effectively and creates greater happiness when you focus first on helping others and then on yourself. He notes this is true because when you focus on yourself, you limit the amount of energy you send out into the Universe, because there's only one of you. When you focus on others, you multiply the amount of energy you output by the number of others you focus on. And, since we are all connected, you benefit as well as the people you help.
He concludes the book by providing 17 steps to being truly happy. A few examples are:
- Eliminate any thought of separation from God
- Decide that you are not your story
- Bypass the drama
- Drop all expectations
This is a very powerful book that I would recommend to anyone wishing to experience happiness within a spiritual context!
Deep, full of inspiration. Love it! February 19, 2008
81 out of 89 found this review helpful
I read this book in a day and a half. I just could not put it down. I have been studying the law of attraction and positive thinking for a long time now, but always felt there was a piece of the puzzle missing. Neale Donald Walsch does and excellent job putting it all together and I was finally able to find the piece that was missing.
I love the way he explains how the law of attraction works. Of all the books I have read in the subject I have never seen anyone explain it as clear. The author really makes everything make sense.
Buy the book, and read it. It is a very profound, very spiritual, to the point book.
Belongs on Everyone's Bookshelf! February 19, 2008
76 out of 87 found this review helpful
This book is amazing. This is my first review and I felt compelled to make sure others found out this book is not to be missed!
I was still on the first chapter when I knew this book was a gem. This book is true spirituality, and it's not about how to conjure a dream home, a six-figure income, or an SUV. You can have that, nothing wrong with it, and the book will explain how and why. And that is why this book is sooo good.
If you are curious about this book, it is not by chance.
Another inspired book by NDW March 7, 2008
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
I bought this book on pure impulse; it nearly jumped off the shelf of the store I was in. I had no idea what it would be about and was pleasantly surprised to discover that it's about the Law of Attraction--PLUS! I've been a student of the LOA for a while now. "Happier Than God" fills in a lot of missing pieces for me.
My favorite revelation in the book is that when we work to manifest something positive, we attract both the positive AND the negative--AND WE GET THE NEGATIVE FIRST! This creates a context in which we can experience what we've manifested. Suddenly all the times that I've started a diet and GAINED weight make sense. :) Now I have the understanding to help me be patient and push through to accept success.
 Defies All Expectations to Still be Useful and Interesting March 6, 2008
26 out of 30 found this review helpful
I was coming into this book with a relatively strong bias against its existence. I was a fan of some of Walsch's earlier work in the conversation books based on his writing style and the fact that, if you don't absorb it at face value and just use it as a starting off point to think about your own ideas, it's a compact and comprehensive way to have a modern discussion about sound spiritual ideas that have stood the test of time.
That said I have a full-body cringe when I see him popping up with little tangential books or the cruises or the workshops or the nickel and diming services in his sites and organizations. People might find those things useful but because of my own feelings on money they felt like bobbleheads, like maybe he started out very genuine but now was interested in building an empire. Indeed earlier on The New Revelations seemed like rehashed material trying to be passed off as greater understanding and had the potential to disillusion.
I think there are two mains camps in response to his work, and that is people dismissing him outright on a premise and missing out on the potential in some minor details because they feel like the acceptance of anything he has to say could be mistaken as a seal of approval, and then there is the camp that has taken what he's said at face value and clung to it needlessly so that they can't even be talked to because they can't deal with a real life conversation or issue without resorting to their handy Rolodex of aphorisms used out of context.
Fortunately there is that middle ground population that's reasonable about the whole deal even if for better or for worse they're just quiet.
I was about to go into cringe mode when I heard about this book and then one of the excerpts here on Amazon went into detail about how The Secret was abusing a very real idea, kicking it as a cash cow instead of handling it with sensitivity, and thus turning it off to the world. I always felt bad for that lost opportunity, but when he mentioned there were layers to the function of the motivating idea behind the principle I hadn't heard of that before or considered, so I was intrigued. I still don't know why but after a couple more excerpts I gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Crazy money-machine hyper-marketer Neale unloads for almost forty pages in this book, building up but saying absolutely nothing tangible. Then a few interesting discussions trickle in, and then he's back to rare form as the book moves on. This is a QUICK read, but I -am- familiar with how he tends to format his ideas so maybe that helps. Certainly if I hadn't read CwG material before this would seem too overwhelming to knock out in a couple nights.
Here's the strength of the book: You know how in the sales materials, it says it isn't a book on spiritual theory but about applying these ideas in a practical way? It simply delivers on that promise. Everything he's discussing involves God very deeply but you really don't even feel like God's being discussed. It doesn't go the other extreme in feeling like an innocuous self-help book though. While it has some new ideas (in the context of Walsch's collective of work, that is) a lot of the material USES old ideas but in ways you haven't really been presented them before. For example, you might've been exposed to certain structures in the CwG books about "how stuff works" from Thing One to Thing Two to Thing Three, and it made sense to you on a conceptual level, and you even walked away going "Wow, that makes sense to me. I could see it operating like that," and feeling like you've considered something profound. This book feels like his way of saying "Hey, remember when I mentioned these structures before, and you made your own decisions about what I meant? Well what I was actually saying in very explicit terms is THIS" and in plain language and even sometimes with a few examples he treats these ideas as very real day to day things that seem relevant and pedestrian rather than beautiful abstractions we have to pull down in our own way.
Is my life changed? Is that the point? This was simply refreshing, even if I had come into it with -positive- expectations and it paid for itself immediately even after the extra few bucks I paid for it by buying it in a real store.
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