Download or read book How to Be Awake & Alive written by Mildred Newman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to a full life—awaken the dreamer within you! It is not easy to let go the outworn life dreams of childhood. Courage and uncompromising honesty with oneself make possible the moment of awakening. It is necessary to be aware of and to fight the recurring temptation to go back to the familiar notions of the past. The resolve to see this past through is strengthened by remembering that a new, adult view of life can be more in touch with the present. It is only by seeing the present clearly that it is possible to cope with the world as it is, let alone build a better one. When one’s energies can be concentrated on the now, not the then, one can truly be awake and alive.