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Name: The Greatest Secret
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Author: Rhonda Byrne

Rhonda Byrne

Revelations and practices to end suffering and discover lasting happiness

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What’s in it for me? Discover the ultimate secret to everlasting peace and joy.

There is a secret that lies in plain sight, for all to see. Yet it remains mysteriously hidden to most people. It’s a secret that the world’s prophets, sages, and religious leaders have known for eons. And it can enable you –⁠ no matter who you are –⁠ to live a life free of all negative thoughts, feelings, and beliefs.

Though right in front of our noses, this secret remains unseen by most people. The chaos and endless distractions of the modern world have blinded us to the truth: that everlasting peace is possible for everyone, not just an enlightened few.

So what exactly is this elusive secret? Well, buckle up – because you’re about to find out.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

why your body and mind aren’t really you;
how to erase negative feelings forever; and
what the sages know but scientists don’t.

Your true self is not a person.

Let’s kick things off with a simple question: Who are you?

Well, that’s easy, you may be thinking. You’re a person with a name, an age, an ethnicity, a profession, and a particular set of memories.

But what if you learned that you aren’t a person at all? What if who you really are is something else entirely? What if your identity is an illusion – an illusion that’s causing all the pain and suffering in your life?

You might not feel as if you’re suffering. Sure, you might get upset, anxious, or stressed sometimes. But doesn’t everyone experience those things? Actually, they don’t! According to the author, if you experience any negative feelings whatsoever, you’re suffering. But it doesn’t have to be that way –⁠ you can actually live a life of constant, complete happiness. And it all starts with realizing who you really are.

The key message here is: Your true self is not a person.

Right now, you’re almost certainly having an experience that feels like being a person. You feel like you have a body. You feel like you have a mind. But these feelings are actually illusions masking the truth.

Let’s start with the body. You can think of it just like a car –⁠ a thing you use to move from place to place. When you’re inside a car, you never say that you are the car. The same is true for your body –⁠ it’s just a vehicle that carries the real you.

Your mind isn’t the real you, either, though it can often seem like it is. After all, you have a voice in your head that talks like you, knows all about you, and refers to itself using the word “I.” But that voice belongs to your mind –⁠ not you. If there are no thoughts, then there is no mind – but you are still there because you are neither a thought nor a feeling.

You also aren’t a collection of personality traits. How could you be? Your personality constantly changes over your lifetime. And these different versions of you can’t be the real you; if they were, a bit of you would disappear each time your personality changed.

The real you is not a body, not a mind, not a personality. So what, or who, is it? That’s the greatest secret –⁠ and you’ll discover the answer in the next blink.

The real you is Awareness itself.

Here’s another question to get you thinking: Are you aware?

There can only be one answer to this question. You must be aware because if you weren’t, you wouldn’t be aware of the question itself. And you have always been aware, from your childhood all the way up to this very moment. Your awareness is the one thing that remains constant, even as your body changes, your personality shifts, and you experience new sensations and emotions.

Use the three-step Awareness practice to consciously stay as Awareness.

To stay as Awareness, the author uses something called the Awareness Practice. It consists of three steps.

The first step is to ask yourself, Am I aware? But don’t try to come up with an answer using your mind. Instead, just feel the presence of Awareness when you ask the question. If your mind tries to intrude with an answer or a thought, just ask yourself the question again. And don’t desperately try to hold onto Awareness, either. Just sense the feelings of relief, peacefulness, and happiness that come with it.

Negative thoughts and feelings dominate our lives.

Did you know that you have a computer program inside of your head? Yep, that’s right! It’s called your mind, and you probably still give it far more authority over your life than it deserves.

Your conscious mind –⁠ your thinking mind –⁠ accepts everything it sees. All of that material ultimately gets stored in your subconscious, which acts like a container for all of your experiences. The subconscious recycles that material and turns it into beliefs, which may be true or untrue. Those beliefs then get converted into thoughts, which are just programs that run in your head on a loop. And far too often, these thoughts are limiting thoughts –⁠ things like I don’t have enough money or That person doesn’t approve of me.

Welcome your negative feelings, and stop identifying yourself with negative thoughts.

When you feel good, it seems like you’re on top of the world. Your energy is limitless, and yet, miraculously, you’re also relaxed! This good feeling is your true nature because Awareness is your true nature, and positivity flows from Awareness.

Negative feelings, on the other hand, stem from resistance to a situation or event. When something happens and you react negatively – “No! I don’t want this!” – it creates tension and resistance in your body and mind. This causes the negative feelings to stick around even longer.

Use Awareness to rid yourself of false and limiting beliefs.

Beliefs are very similar to thoughts. Actually, beliefs are just thoughts that you’ve had so often that you now consider them facts.

Consider the thought: The only way to make more money is by working longer hours. The first time you hear this sentence, it comes from someone else. Then, you start repeating it yourself. Before long, you’ve accepted it as fact. And then you start seeing evidence of it everywhere.

Everything is an illusion created by our minds.

The world is often a turbulent, violent place. Wars rage, people go hungry, and poverty causes desperation. Yet mystics and sages proclaim that all is well.

How can they possibly think that when there’s so much bad? It’s because they know a truth that’s difficult for most people to grasp: everything is an illusion.

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Worum geht es in The Greatest Secret?

The Greatest Secret (2020) is a sequel to the worldwide best seller and self-help phenomenon The Secret, which inspired millions to better their lives by using the laws of attraction. In this installment, we learn an even greater secret: who we really are, and how we can use that knowledge to achieve everlasting happiness.

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There is only one Awareness, and its the same Awareness that is operating through everybody. There is just one of us. Our name is I.

—Rhonda Byrne

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Über den Autor

Rhonda Byrne is the mastermind behind The Secret, which is both a documentary film and a best-selling book. Byrne has been featured in Time magazine’s list of the world’s most influential people and in Mind Body Spirit magazine’s list of the 100 most spiritually influential people. In addition to The Secret, Byrne has written several other top books, including The Power, The Magic, and Hero.

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