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title: "Waking Up by Sam Harris"
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date: 2020-04-15T23:31:08+05:30
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categories: ["Book Notes"]
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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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