In My Egotistical Opinion
A Lifetime of Wisdom Is Available Here
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The golden rule is in our life. The golden rule is in history. The golden rule is in the Bible. If a person looks objectively for the golden rule in his or her life sometimes they will see it. With the complexity of life, and the delay between cause and effect, we can see only a small part of the effect of the golden rule. Sometimes we can see what seems ironic. Sometimes what returns to its source is so exact that we know it is no accident; so we know it is the golden rule. To understand that the golden rule is real the way gravity is real. Observe it in life. When you know that what goes around comes around, then read the book of Matthew. Be aware of the words of Jesus, and you will know that Jesus is real.
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About the Book
What we do in life often does come back to us. This is not all that comes our way in life. We can only control what we initiate.
In My Egotistical Opinion is a collection of what author Harlen Koen would want to say to his children if he had teenage or older children. This book is for teenagers, young adults, adults, and seniors. Hopefully those who read this book will not have to spend a lifetime to learn what he learned the hard way. It includes talk about sex, narcotics, alcohol, abortion, suicide, the Golden Rule, and the Jesus freak, just to mention a few. The theme of the Golden Rule runs throughout this book. It is not just the Golden Rule as a cute rule. Sometimes it is a cold hard fact of life.
In My Egotistical Opinion points out that what we do does in fact come back to us. This is not all that will cross our path in life. Bad things happen to good people. Sometimes we are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sometimes we are affected by what others have done, regardless of what we have done. The Golden Rule is simple. Life is complicated. The least often becomes what is most significant, so we need to pay attention to the little things. Two things that seem contradictory do not require one to be false and the other true. Sometimes both are true.
About the Author
Harlen Koen has had many failures over his seventy-one years. He had to go through what he went through to understand life. He served in the Vietnam War, he went to college for four years, and he worked many jobs. After experiencing esophageal cancer, he understood that his destiny in life was to share the understanding he had gained from many failures, and some unusual observations. Koen currently lives in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.