The lazy man's guide to enlightenment

by Thaddeus Golas

Paper Book, 1995

Status

Available

Call number

291.4

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Publication

Salt Lake City, UT : Gibbs Smith, c1995.

Description

$10.95 cloth hardcover ยท 1-58685-190-X < BR>5 x 7 in, 112 pp, Rights: W, Self-Help < BR>Originally published by the author in 1972, the underground classic Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment teaches how to improve the quality of life, to feel good, and to determine what's real. Golas leads the reader down the path toward enlightenment with simple steps, like memorizing key phrases and incorporating them into daily life and thought. Think of how much better your life might beif you reminded yourself to "love as much as you can from wherever you are" or "love it the way it is." This classic book is full of useful tips on how to live a more conscious life and to be an engaged and aware member of the universal community. < BR>"While we have humility and pride enough to act on the knowledge that we exist in an infinite harmony, that we are neither greater nor lesser than any others, we can enjoy exquisite spiritual wealth and pleasures. When you love yourself, youare in truth expanding in love into many other things. And the more loving you are, the more loving the beings within and around you. On all levels we are mutually dependent vibrations. Play a happy tune and happy dancers will join your trip." < BR>- From The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment< BR>After serving in World War II, author Thaddeus Golas graduated from Columbia College in New York. He later moved to San Francisco, where he became involved in the activism and spiritual quests of the 1960s. He was an editor of Redbook magazine and a book representative for publisher Harper and Row.< BR>… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member moukayedr
Short book that has been popular for decades, and it is clear to see why. It is very honest and accessible. It is also a strange place to find enlightenment, as the author clearly states between the pages that he wrote it for acid heads.

Reading this got me to thinking, and ultimately agreeing, with
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the author that enlightenment does not care how you reach it. You can be guided there by scripture or by the words of a Sufi Imam, or the lines written by an unlikely acid head guru like Thaddeus Golas.

I like some of his ideas and his attempt to link them to quantum physics and science, but what truly spoke to me is the way he summed up the findings of his spiritual search, the non-discriminatory approach to enlightenment, the idea that you can find it anywhere, and also what he spoke about love in the first part of the book, not the last part which was a bit confusing.

Very short book that could be read or re-read to absorb some new age spirituality.
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Language

Original publication date

1972

Physical description

110 p.; 18 cm

ISBN

0879056983 / 9780879056988

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HM

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