YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE WRONG

FOR ME TO BE RIGHT (Finding Faith Without Fanatacism) by Brad Hirschfield is the name of the book I'm reading right now.

Yes, I'm STILL reading the THE POWER OF NOW----but it's so repetitive. He (Tolle) is taking a whole book to say: Yesterday is gone--kaput--you can't CHANGE it. Stop thinking about it. Tomorrow will never actually come---because there's ALWAYS a tomorrow---it never REALLY arrives. You only have this very moment you are actually living in. So stop thinking----and just be--------and be grateful and fully aware of all the blessings you have right now---this very minute. If you could stop thinking and be AWARE every minute of every day you would be "living in the moment". Most of us can't do that----but this author tries to tell you this will solve all the world's problems and says it a million different ways. I think living in the moment is VERY important also.

However I'm really really loving the Hirschfield book. It's written by a Rabbi who was at one time something of a fanatic himself, and he's incredibly wise and articulate about the problems in todays world. We live in a time where "religion" is killing more people than at any time since the crusades. He clearly understands and explains why this is so. He talks about many different aspects of religion and here is an excerpt about cults:

"The distinction between cults and religions is far less clearcut than most people think. The way we define a cult can't be based on its age. All religions have a starting point; each tradition was once an innovation. When early Jews proclaimed there was ONE God, and early Christians said Jesus was His only begotten son, their contemporaries thought they were lunatic cultists."

Well gee, let's see. Say there's this "cult" as some might call it, where some of the women and some of the men live separately and wear a type of uniform, and give all their money and all their goods away to serve their God. And when they go to church, the "minister" makes these gestures like the sign of a cross, and sometimes he lights incense, and waves it around, and sometime he sprinkles something on the people. "Outsiders" might consider this a "cult" of some sort. I consider it being a Catholic. The thing is-----is to know more, and understand more, and be educated more about all religions. Cause you don't have to wrong for me to be right.

Love it.......

I haven't been this excited about a book in a long time. He's an excellent narrator I highly recommend it to people of all faiths. -(I think you would like this book Joy).