Dorothy Rowe’s Guide to Life. Dorothy Rowe
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Название: Dorothy Rowe’s Guide to Life

Автор: Dorothy Rowe

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Общая психология

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isbn: 9780007381883

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      DOROTHY ROWE

       Guide to Life

       Dedication

      To my publisher and friend

      Mike Fishwick

       Epigraph

      Some five hundred years before the birth of Christ the Greek poet Xenophanes wrote,

       The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,

       All things to us; but in the course of time,

       Through seeking we may learn, and know things better.

       But as for certain truth, no man has known it,

       Nor will he know it; neither of the gods,

       Nor yet of the things of which I speak.

       And even if by chance he were to utter

       The final truth, he would himself not know it;

       For all is but a woven web of guesses.1

      Albert Einstein wrote,

       As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.2

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       7 You and Your Life Story

       8 You and Death

       9 You and Depression

       10 You and Other People

       11 You and Emotion

       12 You and Power

       13 Is It All Your Fault?

       14 You and Communication

       15 You and the World

       16 You and Time

       17 Living Your Own Life

       18 If You Want to Learn More

       Notes

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Praise for Dorothy Rowe:

       By the Same Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       CHAPTER 1 The Secret of Life

      THE SECRET of life is that there is no secret.

      All that you need to know about life is there for you to see. All you have to do is open your eyes and recognize what you already know.

      However, down the centuries, many people wanting power have tried to keep the secret. They have created their theories and their jargon, and told us that they and they alone know the secret of life. These are the people who have claimed to be the wisest of the wise. They have called themselves philosophers, theologians, clergy, doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors – in short, experts on life and living. Jungians say we are all part of the collective unconscious, while psychiatrists say that we are the product of our genes. Each of these theories is a way of describing and explaining certain parts of human experience, but no one theory can describe, let alone explain it all.

      Some of these people have always known that there is no secret, while others have insisted that they and they alone know the Secret Truth About Life.

      Down the centuries a few of these experts СКАЧАТЬ