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Title: Gazing on Truth: Meditations on Reality by Kitty Muggeridge ISBN: 0-8028-0072-6 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: May, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95

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Summary: Meditations on Reality
Comment: Meditations on reality is the subtitle of this magnificent but diminutive book. It's physical dimensions belie the power contained therein; though the power of this book flows so gently.

Kitty Muggeridge, through these forty meditations, shares with her readers some thoughts on such subjects as love, happiness, marriage, children, suffering and peace. She does all of this in only eighty-two pages. The simple mathematics reveals that each meditation is only about two pages long. This means that one can easily pick up this book and read just a little from anywhere. It's almost like picking up the Bible and reading a few verses of Scripture from whatever page it happens to open at. Which isn't surprising given that this book contains quite a few quotes from Holy Scripture.

For me, Kitty's writing highlights two important ideas. One is that facts are not truth. They, along with faith and other intangible concepts, serve to reveal to us what is true, but are not in and of themselves, truth. The other is that reality is the opposite of fantasy. This may seem obvious, but what Kitty so gently tells us, is that if we do not seek out the truth about 'what is real' (the title of the first meditation) then we are doomed to be living in fantasy without even realising it. This book was given to me only a year or two after it was first published in 1985 and in all that time one expression has stayed with me as a most powerful and profound understanding. It is the title of the thirty-third meditation; Individual Love and Collective Concern. One will just have to read the book to fully understand what that's all about. But if I may be permitted, I would offer this one quote from that meditation which for me reveals the essence of the enitre book.
"The reality of love accepts suffering, and heals and enriches; the fantasy of 'concern' rejects suffering and commits murder."

It's seems like strong stuff, I know, but read it! All will be revealed!