Just Being

This self-help title offers a route for those hoping to grow into enlightened individuals and settle into lasting inner calm. It asks readers to put the Universal Laws it describes to the test, watching for them at work in everyday life so that these principles become easier to grasp. The author hopes that if the book gives even one reader a better sense of who they are, it will have been worthwhile.

The author admits that she was unaware of how unhappy and insecure she had felt in her own skin until she reached forty and discovered her real self. That personal turning point frames the book's wider message.

The book also issues an urgent warning. The author argues that humanity is not living on Earth as it was meant to, and that our behaviour has become harmful and self-important. Unless our values and way of life change, she writes, our species risks extinction. She feels we are failing in our duty to care for the planet and every living thing on it. She stresses that the ideas here are not new, since the same truth already exists within each of us.