The Greatest Secret (The Secret) Hardcover – November 24, 2020

Reading this book inspires me to continue expanding my consciousness as Infinite Awareness and master my ego-mind. I love the practices and introducing me to more spiritual teachers.

I typically avoid spiritual things that use the word “ secret” because in my lifetime I’ve sometimes found them to be a ploy.However, I read for inspiration to to choose to live as awareness and a book I was reading had a quote I liked in it from The Greatest Secret book, so I decided to get a copy from the library. I was pleased to find quotes in it from many of the books I’ve read and loved over the last twenty years. To my enjoyment, this book is a beautiful overview and inspiration in living as the open Awareness we all are. I ended up purchasing a copy of my own to keep. In my opinion, this book is straightforward and would be a great book to read for someone just getting started settling into living as awareness or for someone who has been for years and enjoys reading for inspiration and focus.

I absolutely loved this book. I loved the quotes by other teachers and how Rhonda Byrne also gave her experience and wisdom along with the quotes. Her energy shines through the words as you read and I have experienced awareness on a deeper and steadier level because of this book. Highly recommend.

As the author states many times, the knowledge and insights she presents have been "discovered", written about and lived by other advanced souls before but the author's ability to bring so many insights into focus and reduce them to the simple single "greatest secret" using contemporary vernacular is her unique skill and gift to those ready to receive it.I absorbed with gratitude and hopefulness The Secret when it first came out.Now in this latest of her books, the author explains in The Greatest Secret the illusion that is common in humanity, the illusion that life as we live it on a daily basis, is factual and all there is to living. The truth, she claims, is that our lives are fabrications based on everything from childhood experiences to social norms, cultural attitudes and behaviors.All of this masks the truth, that we are the creators of our daily experience through the use of our minds and that behind all of this "noise", drama, the ups and downs of daily life, there is a place of perfection, peace and supreme happiness that she refers to as Consciousness.This Consciousness is One, singular and which is our true being and which all of life, truth is made from and of.Once we learn this truth and once we can separate ourselves from identification with our bodies, our minds and regain our awareness of our true Being, we live in a state of complete and total happiness.The day to day struggles to get ahead, to acquire and accumulate, to fix everything from illness to poverty, to free ourselves from the ceaseless effort to achieve, to succeed, to win, from fear and competitiveness we can finally take ultimate pleasure in simply being. We can and do live daily lives, have careers, form families, take trips etc. but they are no longer seen as goals that will fulfill us. They never do anyway but we now can take pleasure in these pursuits and activities for the simple pleasure of the experience more as observers and for the opportunities to grown in greater understanding of our true Self and true purpose.I cannot thank Ms. Byrne more for having given me this gift. I too have, as she has, spent much of my life in study and pursuit of answers, sometimes more intently than at others. I am so grateful that I ran across an interview of her on YouTube that lead me to order the Audible and the printed versions of the book. I imagine I will listen and read this through many times to absorb more and more of the message so I can put it to use increasingly in my daily living.I just completed listening to all six hours of the Audible version in two days and my wife commented when she saw me at the office that I had an unusually warm smile and contented look on my face. (We work together in the same small company and she knew my usual demeanor in the past was quite commonly anything but calm or happy due to the daily stresses and challenges in business).I hope and look forward to this book and this teaching leading to a permanent change in the way in which I view and respond to this world of illusion.Thank you Rhonda.

I watched her YouTube interview last week, and I enjoyed her talk. Therefore, I bought her book. I just started it yesterday and already love it. I can't wait to finish the whole book.

I have to admit, I had a love/hate relationship with this book. The first 3 chapters were a little bit boring to me but I kept reading and then it started to be really interesting!I have read all The Secret Series book and this one is completely different but by the end I found great inspiration!If you are looking for the same kind of book as the previous, this is not the book for you. But if you want to go more spiritual and "inside", this definitely is a great book...