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+title: "Waking Up: A Review"
+date: 2020-04-15T23:31:08+05:30
+categories: ["Book Notes"]
+tags: ["non-fiction", "meditation"]
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+[Check it out on Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3272821691)
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+## A disappointing jumble of thoughts
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+Disappointed.
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+I am an atheist interested in the power of mindfulness and the whole world of so-called spirituality, so naturally, I am the ideal audience that Sam Harris is looking for. But it disappointed in almost every domain that I had expectations in. Using deep-sounding difficult words and wrapping them in an almost mythical aura of "Consciousness", this one was a huge letdown. The irony is that I've been following his mindfulness meditation course and it's been the opposite experience there - in fact, his meditation course itself was what motivated me to pick up this book. 
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+Save yourself the trouble of reading on why to meditate and instead dive into doing the practice itself and judge for yourself.
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