Book Review: Stillness is the Key
Overall, I would give it a thumbs sideways.
If you have ever read any book on meditation, the concept of being in the now or slowing down, then you can skip this book. If you have not, this might be a good first book to get introduced to the concepts.
To me the benchmark to beat is still Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now.
Compared to that, this book would come across superficial and trying to address too many topics in too few pages. I am not sure I can recommend this.
But if you are very early in the journey of understanding your own self and how to stay still, this is bound to be a great first read.
There is something this book talks about from Taoism that appealed to me. And that is how nothingness can have a lot of meaning when it is put in the correct context. A cubic meter of air in front of you means nothing. Unless I put a clay cover around it. Suddenly it can hold water (like a pitcher). The concept of doing nothing, achieving nothing … cannot be truly understood unless you put the context of a full life around it.
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