Recommendations you can check.
by Anthony de Mello
Who uses, recommends or left Awareness: Conversations with the Masters, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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I've gifted this at least 50 times, so I'll keep gifting it.
His 2025 holiday gift guide, a special blog edition of the 5-Bullet Friday newsletter; the post states that each sponsored bullet is marked with a trailing star.
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Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.