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I finally finished reading A New Earth!  After getting mugged in DC and feeling so stressed out from it, I was able to calm down and finish this fantastic book and realized that I was completely identifying with the event.  I was a ‘victim’ – and all of my feelings and emotions were associated with that ‘fact’.  Everytime I felt something, it was anger, and resentment, and a displeasment about having been in the wrong place at the wrong time – for not paying attention, for being a little too drunk, for not taking a cab.  After reading A New Earth I was able to reconfirm my belief in ‘no regrets’… what’s done is done and I learned from it.  I’m better for it.  I’ve learned to not walk home at 2 am alone.  I’ve learned to be more attentive of my surroundings.  I’ve learned that things can be replaced (albeit costly) and that things are just that – things.  Man makes things, and things do not make the man.  In a few months I’m going to revisit this book for a second read as there is so much to offer and learn that one time is just not enough.  I also went out and bought the prequel, The Power of Now and I’ll be reading that after I finish a long procrastinated read of Getting Things Done.  I’m glad to get back into reading.  It’s been a while since the written word has touched me.  I hope it’ll give me inspiration to write more.