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Steven Zammit: The Sweet Kiss of Awareness. Malta University Publishing, 2113. 112 pp.

The main aim of Steven Zammit’s book is evidently to raise public awareness in the regard of various aspects of daily life, and to propose practical approaches to peaceful life.

A peaceful life, in this context, is consistently understood as a series of relationships, both with oneself and with others. Man is conceived as the pro-duct of continuous interaction between the inner and the outer self, the subjective and the objective.

The individual and the collective are here seen as variations of one single, unifying truth, namely the realisation of the self, the attainment of a high degree of fulfilment. Zammit makes full use of his wide knowledge of basic theories in this field, and is equally concerned with the presentation of attitudes which are just the direct and authentic results of awareness.

Helpful to whoever is involved in the educational sector

Various moral and psychological principles are here presented in a succinct and understandable way, easily accessible to all, while the author’s own earnest concern reveals itself throughout.

This is not a book written for its own sake, as its aims are continuously implied both in the content and in the style with which the author relates theory to real situations which can be experienced from day to day by all.

Zammit deserves the appreciation of whoever is keen to see betterment in the field of human relations at all sectors of life, including mainly the family and society.

Although the community is always taken into consideration, Zammit never fails to give paramount importance to the real and only protagonist of his work, the individual.

Seen and evaluated in this light, this book can prove helpful to whoever is involved in the educational sector.