: About Me

I'm a middle aged married male from Australia who has interests in reading mainly in the Self Help and Spiritual fields. I have been lucky enough to write and author a recently published book, and currently am a bookseller selling books online under my Business Name ReadBefore Books.

My passion is ...

unfortunately my only real passion is my books and collecting books and now fortunately writing.

I know too much about ...

everything and nothing really. A little of most things a lot of nothing.

My parents always told me ...

I would never be a writer. My letters and school essays were too brief and I didn't seem to possess any early talents in writing, except I was of course a voracious reader.

My childhood ambition ...

to own a bookshop.

My favorite memory ...

Running my own bricks and mortar bookshop for several beautiful years.

Why I write ...

it gives me a certain connection to myself I had never experienced before. And really I find that I am almost driven to write by my contact with different ideas and of wanting to share my own view and position about them. Nobody much used to listen to me before. Now I am better understood in my writing.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am always reading New Age, self help, and spiritual material.

My first job ...

I stayed in my first job for 20 years. It was office based and clerical work.

My best moment ...

I think it was when I had my own completed and newly printed book in my hands.

My inspiration ...

God, and anyone that speaks truth which resonates to me. I admire someone who is confident enough to know and own their own truths.

Religion & Spirituality > Spiritual Insights The personal risk of a spiritual journey

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To begin to know who you are, at first you need to take a risk on who you might be. All spiritual journeys begin with an initial risk, simply because at the beginning of our journey we think that we don't know who we are. We just don't know that we do know. A spiritual journey is always about discovering yourself and finding out and owning who you are and what you really do know. It is taking a risk on yourself, to be yourself. How can we begin to explain the concept of risk spiritually? Is there such thing as a real risk, or is it really just a manifestation of fear coming from our fear, ...

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