ARA Review by BySarahAnneCarter of In It Together

[BySarahAnneCarter]

[Following is an OnlineBookClub.org ARA Review of the book, In It Together.]

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3 out of 5 stars

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With all the distractions and divisions in today’s world, there should be at least one thing that can unite it – our humanity. In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All by Eckhart Aurelius Hughes proposes that when humans look at what they have in common and view life through a spiritual lens, peace can be found.

The book starts out by showing how most humans can experience some sort of empathy for the suffering of other people and that is due to everyone have a spirit (or their true self). The author then looks at how you can look at your own life to find your true self. He says that anyone of any or no religion can find answers in his framework to being at peace with life.

Overall, he offers eleven very good suggestions for what people should do to live a fully, happy and peaceful life. From focusing on the present to embracing the discomfort that is inherent to life, the suggestions are a good reminder and are very practical. I was reminded to focusing on doing less, not more so that I can do those fewer things better.

While there are gems of good self-help suggestions and I really like that the author mentions the spiritual aspect of life, I could not agree with him on the point of there not being evil. He prefaced that any religion could work with his ideas, but it does not work with mine. I believe in good and evil being in this world and that struggle is the main one we deal with in life. To say there is no evil excludes many devout religious people from the author’s worldview. Due to the exclusion of this large group despite the author saying he wanted to include everyone is why I give the book three out of five stars.

While any reader would get some good takeaways from this book, I would really only recommend it to people who can agree that there is no evil in the world.

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