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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled The Little Book of Letting Go about Key, Happiness, Learning with the genre: Business & Money, Job Hunting & Careers?
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conversations.value: The Key to Happiness Is Learning to Let Go. In this accessible, friendly book, bestselling author the author presents a simple 30-day programme to free yourself from worry, conflict and painful memories. His unique and powerful approach, based on 30 years' experience, will help you to identify and release 'mental toxins'. The result is a mind free of clutter that embraces freedom and a life that knows peace. Learn how to let go of: mental pollution, misery, inner conflict. The Little Book of Letting Go is a treasure trove of practical and spiritual wisdom with gentle exercises and wonderful insights to help deliver us into the precious present, alive and grateful for the gift of life.
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conversations.value: Do you know the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: The Little Book of Letting Go
  Nor have these containers of leftovers and ancient jars of condiments been sitting quietly in the corners where they were pushed. They are now so thick with mold and mildew that they have taken on lives of their own. Indeed, the back recesses of our refrigerator mind are in revolt and have set up sour and stinky kingdoms of their own. It's so scary a sight that our impulse is to shove all the front-line items quickly back in place so that now sunny orange juice, freshly picked mangoes, and organic celery once again appear to be all that's in there.
  It's not a small task to clean out our overstuffed minds. It takes a little time and courage, and we have to brace ourselves for some unpleasant discoveries. But when the shelves are once again clean and orderly, when only fresh edibles and true nourishment are on the horizon, and when soft aromas fill the air, we will know we have made a very small sacrifice for such bounty.
  It's curious that I or anyone would have to make a pitch for simple peace and fulfillment. Yet this illustrates the state of modern culture. It is acceptable, if not expected, that individuals devote huge chunks of their lifetimes to accumulation, professional status, physical attractiveness, social acceptance, and a better golf swing. Mention enjoyment and inner ease and most people think these are luxuries they don't have time to pursue. It's enough to hope that their life might someday look successful.
  If you want to know what it feels like to stock your refrigerator with the items you choose rather than those chosen for you by culture and family dynamics, just look at little children playing—which they do most of the time. The average preschool child laughs over 350 times a day. The average adult laughs about ten. Why? Because children come into the world with clean refrigerators!
  So let's begin. To help us assess how much mental litter we collect in a single day, let's consider just one useless item that we all accumulate: worry.
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conversations.value: Do you know five more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: The other side of this coin is that those who do become aware gain their freedom. No matter how powerfully you were influenced or damaged by any previous relationship, whether with parents, peers, or an ex-spouse, if you work diligently to bring the thoughts your mind still carries into full awareness, you eventually become free to choose how you will feel and act.
  An example of how this process occurs naturally can be seen in how differently people act out the racial, sexual, financial, and other group prejudices they pick up in childhood. In each area of the country there are strong feelings against certain groups. The particular groups singled out differ from location to location, and many people who travel have been amused to hear almost identical criticisms directed at Native Americans in Santa Fe, Mexicans in Dallas, Koreans in L.A., and Puerto Ricans in New York. These groups are so unlike each other that obviously "the locals" are seeing their prejudices, not the groups.
  Most likely, some form of prejudice was part of the atmosphere you took in daily, if not in your home, then in your neighborhood or the schools you attended. If you are like most people, your basic mindset contains echoes of those prejudices even today, regardless whether you see intellectually that they are unreasonable.
  If you are hiring for your company and an applicant who is a member of the group that was disliked when you were a child walks through the door, your immediate impression of this person might very well be distorted by prejudice. By being aware of this attitude and knowing where it came from, you can quickly concentrate on not letting it continue to distort your view of someone who might very well be an asset to the company. If anything, your awareness motivates you to take pains to be especially fair with this person.
  Another example concerns the generalized opinions men have about women, and that women have about men, which they laugh about and bemoan among themselves. When it comes to the individual they are dating, most people are conscious enough to set aside these attitudes and see the person clearly.
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conversations.value: Do you know the last five paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Neither words nor silence have much to do with these miracles. The sincerity of our heart is the power behind them. For where is Family and Home if not within the ocean of our relationships? Where else can the presence of God first be felt? In the words of the old Shaker hymn, "If you love not one another in daily communion, how can you love God whom you have never seen? If you love one another, then God is within you, and you are made pure to live in the light."
  Love is not joining with some shining concept in the sky. It is joining with each other. It is lived and expressed in the errands, tasks, and chance meetings that fill each day. Instant by instant we choose to see our sameness and equality with others. We choose to recognize the familiar in each heart. By loving, we wake to Love. By extending peace, we wake to Peace.
  In your journey, you have valued many things, but now your heart and your treasure are becoming one. Do not doubt that the One who is with you will give you Everything, if you will merely let go of everything else.
  The most productive approach is to take each Release in order and do it for the suggested number of days before going to the next one. Naturally, the discussion of ideas leading up to and following each Release can be read and reread at any pace that is comfortable.
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