The gist of this book is best illustrated by the wonderful advice from the end of Chapter 7, "Invest in the picture that brings you joy, and the universe may just throw in the frame for free!" The concepts this book covers are not concrete or measurable so are difficult to discuss clearly and authoritatively.

The book is a discussion and illustration of the differences between "inner voice" and "ego voice." The author is a psychotherapist and that helped me believe she knew from her practice of what she was speaking. However, the book is an odd mix of spiritual truths, based on the author’s experience with A Course in Miracles, and Freudian psychological jargon.

As much as I understand and like the freshness of the approach, I feel the book is too tied to A Course in Miracles and disrespectful of Freud and human psychology in general. The author almost pits spirituality against psychology to illustrate her points. The book held my interest though because I cannot see how it could have been written differently.

I think most people want to believe in the concept of soulmates, that there are people out in the world one is meant to meet and partner with in some way. This book takes that desire and tries to show the reader how to back off from background, friends’ and society’s expectations of relationships and tune into one’s own inner wisdom and what it has to say about relationships instead.

I think the book succeeds in fueling the desire for a soulmate and in showing that some people do believe they have found soulmates. I am not as certain how successful the teaching was in how to find and respond to one’s inner wisdom instead of one’s habitual way of being. I think it’s a Catch-22 situation where people who would read this book will find their way one way or another and people who "need" this book but would not consider reading it are not ready yet for its wisdom. However, in the spirit of "when the student is ready the teacher appears," I would recommend this book to all who feel drawn to it.

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