In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All

by Eckhart Aurelius Hughes

Overview

"In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All" is a book about realizing the uplifting and unifying power of love, of true conscious love.

It shows that deep down we are truly-and literally-one and the same.

The book shows how the phrases "self-discipline" and "spiritual freedom" refer to the exact same thing. In the way the book uses the terms, to be "self-disciplined" is to be "free-spirited", and vice versa.

This is a book that uses a friendly, kind, loving, and humorous tone to tie together philosophy, spirituality, and self-help with long-standing universal truths from all ages, regions, and times.

It includes quotes from a diverse array of philosophers, artists, scientists, and spiritual teachers, including but not limited to Albert Einstein, Alan Watts, Carl Jung, Osho, Sam Harris, Ram Dass, Meister Eckhart, Eckhart Tolle, Rabbi Tina Sobo, Friedrich Nietzsche, David J Mauro, Vincent Van Gogh, George Bernard Shaw, Socrates, Voltaire, Voltairine de Cleyre, Jesus, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Shakespeare, René Descartes, Rev. Dr. John Watson, and both a prisoner named Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as well as the man who imprisoned him.

This book was funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign run before the book was even written. It was inspired by the question, "What is the opposite of temptation?"

The book answers that question and so many more. Without preaching, the book provides a unifying, loving, and deeply compelling message that paves a path to inner peace, true happiness, and spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline). The reader is left empowered, motivated, and inspired.

As the opening letter in the book states, "Stay strong, my friends. There's beauty in the struggle. There's so much to overcome, but imagine what it could mean to overcome it."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948472043
Publisher:	OnlineBookClub.org LLC
Publication date:	10/01/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	221,155
File size:	620 KB

About the Author

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Table of Contents

In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All

Table of Contents

Dedication

Opening Quote by Ram Dass

Opening Letter: A force of unbelievable love and goodness...

Opening Question

Introduction: A Common Struggle

A World of Problems

Why We Don't Help Them, They That Seem to Suffer Most

We Can't Help Starving Children Because We Can't Help Ourselves

Why  We Can't Help Ourselves: The Two Yous

You have a human body, but you are not human.

Your Clothes, Figurative or Otherwise

You are not your literal clothes.

You are not your figurative clothes either.

You are not your name.

You are not your money.

You are not your degrees or certificates.

You are not your job.

You are not your social security number.

You are not your eye color, eye size, or eye shape.

You are not your hair color, hair style, or hair volume.

You are not your gender.

You are not your skin tone or skin color.

You are not your credit score.

You are not your ego, whether it's big, small, proud, or ashamed.

You are not your ego's egotistical thoughts, feelings, or urges.

You are not your reputation or what other people think of you.

You are not the specific collection of atoms and molecules in your body.

You are not your memories.

You are not really your body at all.

Humpty Dumpty: Let's Put You Back Together Again

Temporal Unity of Selves: Loving Yourself Over Time

The Three Relationship Types Between Temporal Selves (i.e. Your Past and Future Selves)

(Type 1) Temporal Selfishness or Psychopathy

(Type 2) Temporal Enabling or Codependency (Abusive or Toxic Pseudo-Love)

(Type 3) True Conscious Love: Consciousnesses Recognizing Consciousness

The Two-Way Street of True Conscious Love and Conscious Empathy

Spatial Unity of Selves: Loving Yourselves Across Space

The Three Relationship Parameters Between Spatial Selves

(Type 1) Spatial Selfishness

(Type 2) Spatial Enabling or Codependency (Toxic Pseudo-Love or Abuse)

(Type 3) True Conscious Love (a.k.a. divine love)

Material Unification: The Whole Universe As Our Shared Body

The role of faith and religion in material unification

You, the real you, are consciousness itself: Pure beautiful spirit.

A line cutting through the heart of every person... (The relationship between the Two Yous)

To find inner peace, simply stop fighting.

The Opposite of Temptation

There is no problem of evil.

How to free your spirit and manifest your love

Suggestion One - Be Honest. Let go of denial, delusion, and self-deceit.

Suggestion Two - Let go of trying. Accept the unchangeable.

Suggestion Three - Let go of fighting that sacrifices inner peace. Surrender to truth.

Suggestion Four - Let go of moralizing or similarly judgmental language.

Suggestion Five - Let go of resentment, hate, and unforgiveness towards others, including your past self. Accept their choices, and accept them as they are.

Suggestion Six - Let go of possessiveness.

Suggestion Seven - Let go of the false idolization of positivity and superficial happiness. Accept the shadow of all things including yourself.

Suggestion Eight - Embrace discomfort. Let go of comfort addiction.

Suggestion Nine - Let go of future idolization. Embrace the present.

Suggestion Ten - Let go of restlessness and overcommitment. Do less, better.

The Karmic Payoff of Doing Less Better

Suggestion Eleven - Just Love Everything and Everyone

The Choice is Yours

I Love You

Thank you for reading

Gratitude to Street Team