Meditative author and mentor Higgins offers pronouncements, suggestions, comforts, and revelations in this unique and enjoyable collection. They were composed on his phone, by the author’s admission, while in a state of samadhi, a Hindu term for intense meditation on, and union with, the divine. The charm of the hundreds of pithy, sage offerings is their clear human-scale presentation, urging readers to become one with themselves and the universe. To do so, they will need to celebrate life at the pace of life, neither rushing ahead nor denying one’s inherent connection with eternal love, which, Higgins states, is everywhere, even in war and hate. Answers will not be found within the boundaries of conventional religion; they are eternal and can be recognized by looking within, where one will discover the true self.

Throughout this sweeping collection, Higgins reveals much about himself as he reaches out to others. He is a sharp observer of human hopes and flaws and is able to express sacred concepts with enjoyable humor, reminding his audience that their real task is “to get away from yourself” and to remember that, despite undeniable looming, apocalyptic stirrings, “the entire universe is laughing.” The author, whose academic accomplishments include a master’s degree in family therapy and a doctoral degree in transpersonal psychology, has written previously on similar themes. The broad range of subject matter arrayed in this volume includes sex, psychology, the invasion of and understanding of extraterrestrials, and subtle warnings of coming universal upheavals, melded with ordinary situations deftly translated into the sublime, always in wording that sincere seekers will immediately grasp. The author’s book will provide comfort, challenge, and a greater grasp of the universality of all experience to those enchanted, as Higgins clearly is, by the large truths embedded in seemingly small, personal incidents and ideations.

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