The Untethered Soul - a reflection and review
There is no perfect book.
People ask me all the time what one book they should read, my opinion is that productive reading is an ongoing (forever) process. Occasionally if you're really lucky you'll come across the right book at the right time, and for me this was the very right book for the very right time.
Despite being a spiritual self-help book, the complete opposite of what I usually read, I actually found my experience reading this book to be sublime. There is a high chance that if you know my usual content you’ve heard me dumping on self-help books in the past. Does this make me a hypocrite??? ….probably, yeah!!!
For this reason I really didn’t have high hopes going in, it's been on my wish list for nearly 2 years because when someone recommends me a book I put it on my list and eventually get to it, but recently I met a new lady who suggested it at which point I felt compelled to me to finally read it. Although in defense of my romanticism I would have done anything this girl told me to do....
“This above all: to thine own self be true" This is a quote from Hamlet, the book opens with this quote and while I have not yet read Hamlet I find myself increasingly obsessed with it. The universe has been telling me to read Hamlet for a long time, ad I've been listening. In fact, 5 days earlier this week I was at an Airbnb and the host had a copy of Hamlet on a bookshelf that caught my attention and now the book I'm reading opens with a Hamlet quote. Coincidences are just coincidences and I don't believe in fate, but something about them feels meaningful and I just prefer to accept that they are meaningful. Sometimes I call it the universe talking to me.
