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Praise for end your story. Begin your life... "Thank you, Jim, for bringing forth to readers your extremely helpful, sensible, straightforward and yes, profound book, end your story. Begin your life... This is a fine combination of nondual spirituality, cognitive therapy and depth psychology. The question-answer format found throughout much of the book will be attractive for readers who hold these very questions. I'm also glad you included your poignantly personal 'story' in the Appendix about what you have so heroically endured with a major health challenge, your inspiration from dear sages Jean Klein and J. Krishnamurti, and your progressively more radical awakenings."
Timothy Conway, teacher and author of Women of Power & Grace, the forthcoming 2-volume India's Sages, “For many, life can feel like a skipping record—the same patterns repeating themselves over and over again creating a narrative that limits our ability to truly live. end your story. Begin your life... is overflowing with wisdom. Jim Dreaver's words are both inspiring and life changing. This book offers a powerful, yet simple path that leads from the prison of the mind to the expanded freedom that is everyone’s potential.”
Darren Main, author of Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic
"In this book, Jim has simplified and made very clear that
which cannot be spoken. His words are powerful and go right to the heart of
what's true: everything between your ears is a story. I've been a seeker for
over 38 years. Jim's book helped me to see that seeking is also a story. The
three-step practice alone is worth the price of the book." Stefano Siciliano, Nellysford, Virginia Lyra Mayfield & Charlie Stein, Boulder, Colorado Cameron
Pazirandeh, filmmaker, Pacific Palisades, California Shari Faerman, Master Results Coach, Simi
Valley, California
“I got hit by a meatball thrown through the telephone by Jim. It blew my mind. It was the best money I ever spent!”
Tim O'Neill, St. Louis, MO www.surveyroom.com Jan Hamilton, Ph.D., Aspen, CO Mara Fiore, Los Angeles, CA
"There is a very deep presence that has stayed with me after working with you. I am more easily able to come back to the sanctuary of the present than before."
Erik Ossell, Big Sur, CA
"There are no fancy poses or intricate breathing techniques in here, but this is the real deal. Such a beautiful teaching. So lucid and clear. Let go of your imaginations about who you are and what the world is, your ‘story,’ and discover your true nature. I have known Jim for over 25 years now. We struggled together toward clarity. He has done an excellent job of clearly stating both the practice and the teaching, making it relevant to life as we know it, and making it a fun, interesting read. I have no hesitation in wholeheartedly recommending this work."
Erich Schiffmann, yoga master, author of
Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness
"A powerful and wisdom-rich book that will help you reclaim your greatest life."
Robin Sharma, author of the national bestsellers
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
and The Saint, The Surfer and The CEO
and author of Happy 4 Life: Here's How to Do It
"I love this book! It is for anyone who is serious about enlightenment and the freedom it brings. Through his own experience and wisdom, Jim Dreaver demystifies awakening and—using the simple tools he calls the practice and the teaching—makes its realization more tangible and reachable with every page. Profound and comprehensive, easily understandable, and down-to-earth practical, this manual may literally shorten a seeker's path by decades."
Madhukar Thompson, author of The Odyssey of Enlightenment
"Written in a simple, straightforward style, this book is a real gift to the world. I’d call it a primer for living.”
Susan Campbell, Ph.D.,
author of Getting Real and Truth in Dating
"Jim Dreaver is a brilliant thinker and writer. Steeped in rich personal experience, end your story. Begin your life... makes complex and confusing Eastern concepts accessible to the Western mind. With extraordinary clarity and simplicity, this book takes us on a journey that leads to the fulfillment of our deepest hopes and longings."
John Amodeo, Ph.D., author of The Authentic Heart
and Love and Betrayal, and co-author of Being Intimate
and website www.enlightened-spirituality.org.
Testimonials about Jim's Teaching Work and Private Sessions
"Jim, you completely changed my life. I have practiced your work for over a year. I now realize that I chose to be a victim. No one ever opened the world of wisdom like you... Plus, you shifted the energy of the whole house. We live in deep harmony now."
"I just love the three-step practice…! It has been a mini-miracle in terms of getting my mind and the story quieted."
"My experience Jim was remarkable in that it allowed me to see the story that I had concocted about life, myself and others that created, maintained, and perpetuated my own disturbance. He said, "When you feel upset, look for the story you are telling yourself and notice that you are not the story or the person in the story but the consciousness that is looking.” Every time I felt conflicted I did as he suggested, and felt a sense of freedom from the story and from the emotional upset. It was a profound experience."
Truth Paradise, Aspen, CO
"Before I just couldn't understand your message about letting go of my "identity.” All I could do was say, yeah, but how do I let go… and if I'm not my "identity", who am I? But now, as a result of working with you, I could literally feel things shift in every fiber as I saw that "I" was not real. I am simply awareness itself, before any concept of “I,” “me,” and “mine". I’ve been seeking for seven years, and now, here it is. Amazing…!"
Ann Smith, Boise, ID
"Everything is falling into place… You told me to focus on the perceiving, rather than on what is perceived. Learn to be in awareness itself, you said, rather than getting enmeshed in the thoughts and things of which I am aware. Thank you for the clarity. It's so simple, yet I have missed it most of my life!"
Chris Rogers, Muncie, IL
