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And This Too

More of What This Life Is About
Surendra James Conti

Things change. Even within the illusion of time, every moment, and every atom within it, is different than in the moment before. The universe, by nature, is relentlessly in flux. It is God’s dream, and God dreams in motion.

Things change, and as they do, we get on with getting on or off. The whole of life is a dance, and although the tune is not always ours to call, we can give it our best. It’s not about skill or style. It’s about committing to live in joy.

This book, And This Too, is who I am, a further account of my thoughts as the shuffle of tunes has played around and within me, sometimes sweetly and sometimes not. Perhaps you will find this something of your book too.

The reason we are here, in this dream of body and mind, is because we have yet to become who we truly are.

The difference between a writer and one who isn’t, is that writing for the writer takes far more time and fewer words to finish.

We may accidently make a foolish mistake, but we do not accidentally make it again. It becomes a choice.

Everything passes away, moving by the moment in route to Eternity’s edge. We are losing ground even as we seem to gain it. This frightens us, but why? Why do we forget to sing of that which does not die?

What is it for, this passing away, if not to wake us to the life that is forever, to the song of our immortality and the bliss that our mortal living has resisted?

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Surendra James Conti

Author of And This Too

As a writer, I prefer the timeless to the transient. Yet, the transient can be hard to ignore. From day to day, as we have lately seen, our world can experience sudden, dramatic changes.

In Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address, he recalled that our nation was “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” The rupture of the Civil War was clearly “testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”

Politics change and pandemics eventually pass, but no nation “can long endure” its neglect of truth and justice. Severely polarized again, we are on the precipice of another civil breach. In which direction will we break: toward resolution or another rupture, toward unity or further division?

One way or the other, as events play out, I suspect I will have another book in me yet.

Paramhansa Yogananda Swami Kriyananda

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Preface

What can we know of this decade, these challenging twenties? Only that we will be tested, perhaps more severely than in any decade before. We can know that its time and space will compress, that everything about it will happen faster, demanding of us the resilience and stamina to adapt.

Will today’s winds be whipped into storms? Who would dare to think not? It is time to prepare, as it always is, for the chance of typhoon forces to surge against us. Like the tree that has weathered the worst of these, we must focus on strengthening our roots, anchored in readiness for gusts that are likely to come with little warning. No terrible blow can break the one who has learned how to bend.

We can know of this decade only that we must meet whatever it brings, and that each meeting will offer a chance to find the gem within it. Love it, and it will serve you well.

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And This Too gives us spiritual inspiration, laugh-out-loud humor, a lifetime’s wisdom, personal vulnerability, musings on history and the craft of writing, and profound insight, carefully woven into creative poetry and elegant prose. Reading the book is like having a long conversation with a wise friend, as much self-reflective as offering answers to the eternal questions. A good book to read if you want to be nudged into your own process of introspection.

Joseph Selbieauthor of The Physics of God

And This Too is a book with the perfect subtitle: “More of What This Life Is About.” True wisdom awaits our perception, through an increasing willingness to shine more light on our inner, superconscious selves. Surendra reveals his sincere inner dialogues and light-filled inspirations, by the not-always-easy process of writing them down, clarifying them, and then sharing them freely with his readers.

Savitri SimpsonAuthor of The Treta Yuga Trilogy of spiritual novels

The author is a deep, subtle thinker, well outside the box. Daily life with a spiritual focus. The writing is excellent — interesting, nicely challenging our preconceptions, but in a kind, often amusing way. Open the book anywhere and you’ll gain a deeper understanding of something you really need to know.

Asha NayaswamiAuthor of Swami Kriyananda, Lightbearer

A lovingly-crafted book. Both timely and timeless, deep and light-hearted, these pages offer sophisticated questions with easy-to-understand instructions on how to find inner peace. Written with humor and grace, And This Too is a gift for all to treasure that assists in remembrance of our true nature.

Elizabeth KennedyArtist, EAKennedyArts.com

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