Jürg Rohrer - ABC of Awareness (auf Englisch)

ABC of Awareness

Personal Development as the Meaning of Life

Jürg Rohrer

Rohrer, Jürg: ABC of Awareness: Personal development as the meaning of life

Translated from German by Roger Curtis

Niederurnen: UTD Media, 2016 (Series: «Time for change»)

Key words: Awareness, consciousness, personal development, meaning of life, personal responsibility, counselling, self-realization

Title of the original German edition: Rohrer, Jürg: 1x1 des Bewusst-Seins: Persönliche Entwicklung als Lebenssinn, UTD Media 2001, ISBN 3-8311-1867-1

UTD Media is a publisher for Up-To-Date AG, Mühlegasse 6, CH-8867 Niederurnen. http://www.timeforchange.org

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Jürg Rohrer, born in 1962, initially worked as an engineer in diverse companies at home and abroad. In 1991 he became professionally self-employed and since that time has worked with his own small enterprises in the areas of environmental technology and IT. The integration of the highest ethical values into everything we do or do not do is of central importance to him.

During his work the author constantly meets many people from different cultures in the most varied situations. This has encouraged him to consider the thought that whoever - over a period of time - critically observes himself and his fellow human beings in their everyday situations eventually cannot avoid the question as to the origins and meaning of our decisions and finally about the meaning of our human life. This book arose from these considerations.

It is often astonishing how little time we take to consider such an important theme as the meaning of our own lives. How easily we simply take over preconceived notions without questioning them. Or how seldom we thoroughly examine the consequences of our decisions in advance.

This book explains human development on the basis of easily- understood examples and simple models. It is intended to arouse thinking about your own life and to offer help as to how we can specifically change our lives.

Whoever reads this book will not gain great financial reward soon after reading it nor will he or she be venerated by his or her fellow human beings as «superhuman». However in this book the author does show ways of achieving a life full of meaning, inner peace and the joy of living. And this not as some kind of dropout from any sort of civilisation, but rather in the centre of daily life- and also not just in a special environment for a few weeks in the year but rather in the middle of our private and professional day-to-day lives as a completely normal human being.

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Title Page ABC of Awareness Personal Development as the Meaning of Life Jürg Rohrer Rohrer, Jürg: ABC of Awareness: Personal development as the meaning of life Translated from German by Roger Curtis Niederurnen: UTD Media, 2016 (Series: «Time for change») Key words: Awareness, consciousness, personal development, meaning of life, personal responsibility, counselling, self-realization Title of the original German edition: Rohrer, Jürg: 1x1 des Bewusst-Seins: Persönliche Entwicklung als Lebenssinn, UTD Media 2001, ISBN 3-8311-1867-1 UTD Media is a publisher for Up-To-Date AG, Mühlegasse 6, CH-8867 Niederurnen. http://www.timeforchange.org Copyright © 2016 Jürg Rohrer, Some Rights reserved: Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 You are free: to Share: to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work to Remix: to make derivative works Under the following conditions: Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor. (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. Disclaimer: Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. This is a summary of the Legal Code (the full license): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

The origins of this book The origins of this book Jürg Rohrer, born in 1962, initially worked as an engineer in diverse companies at home and abroad. In 1991 he became professionally self-employed and since that time has worked with his own small enterprises in the areas of environmental technology and IT. The integration of the highest ethical values into everything we do or do not do is of central importance to him. During his work the author constantly meets many people from different cultures in the most varied situations. This has encouraged him to consider the thought that whoever - over a period of time - critically observes himself and his fellow human beings in their everyday situations eventually cannot avoid the question as to the origins and meaning of our decisions and finally about the meaning of our human life. This book arose from these considerations. It is often astonishing how little time we take to consider such an important theme as the meaning of our own lives. How easily we simply take over preconceived notions without questioning them. Or how seldom we thoroughly examine the consequences of our decisions in advance. This book explains human development on the basis of easily- understood examples and simple models. It is intended to arouse thinking about your own life and to offer help as to how we can specifically change our lives. Whoever reads this book will not gain great financial reward soon after reading it nor will he or she be venerated by his or her fellow human beings as «superhuman». However in this book the author does show ways of achieving a life full of meaning, inner peace and the joy of living. And this not as some kind of dropout from any sort of civilisation, but rather in the centre of daily life - and also not just in a special environment for a few weeks in the year but rather in the middle of our private and professional day-to-day lives as a completely normal human being.

Foreword Foreword What drives us as human beings? Why do we exist? What do we strive for? On the pages which follow we would like to offer subjects for thought and information on these and other questions. We set out the bases for all existence on the earth and discuss the consequences for life in private and business areas. Amongst other things we describe how we can achieve constant harmony and inner peace. The right choice and deliberate pursuing of our own, self-selected goals take on a key role in this so that we can achieve our own goals and not let ourselves be manipulated by others. The theme addressed here is extremely comprehensive. It is not sufficient to simply read a book on the subject. This contribution is therefore intended in particular to stimulate thoughts about our own lives, which goals we should set for ourselves in our lives and how best to achieve them. For simplicity all the formulations have been written in the male form. This is not intended to be discriminatory, all conclusions and examples also apply without restriction to the female gender. Niederurnen, January 2016 Jürg Rohrer