One of the most charismatic teachers and thinkers of today speaks from her heart. Twenty years ago, faced with a life-threatening illness, Dawna Ma...
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Nov 23, 2011
Elyse
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A nice range of insights and nuggets of wisdom related to finding personal balance and reclaiming your passion/purpose.
I read the book during a period of personal inertia and apathy, when I have been struggling to find energy and meaning. I found it very helpful to reconceptualize this period as passion's rest, for example. Not a malfunction or dis-ease, but a healthy function for a living organism.
Markova's discussion of constellations ~ as a metaphor for how we naviga More...
I read the book during a period of personal inertia and apathy, when I have been struggling to find energy and meaning. I found it very helpful to reconceptualize this period as passion's rest, for example. Not a malfunction or dis-ease, but a healthy function for a living organism.
Markova's discussion of constellations ~ as a metaphor for how we naviga More...
Jan 22, 2009
Stemsofred
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This is a wonderful book to use while reflecting on your own life's path. The stage of the author's life, as she tells it, will make you realize how fast time goes by and why the passion in your life needs to remain in the forefront at all times.
Jul 02, 2009
Karen
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One of my favorites that I'm rereading in conjunction with the "Developing Wisdom in the 2nd Half of Life" Workshop I'm co-presenting with Kathleen Hofer this fall. Full of insightful questions for introspection, which is where I am currently.
Oct 02, 2009
Ngiamsw
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Understanding and seeing our life as nature's natural cycle of spring, summer, fall, winter. How do I live in a way that brings out the best of who I am?
Aug 31, 2010
Cheryl
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They say that the book finds you and so it was with this little tome- right book- right time.
Jun 09, 2011
Lori
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Inspirational on living the life you were intended too - not the one you settle for.
Mar 28, 2011
Suzanne
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It was like talking to a good friend over coffee. I feel refreshed an renewed.
Oct 27, 2011
Michele
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One of the best self-help books I've read. So many nuggets of truth and wisdom that come through in the stories she tells. I am reading it again now with my partner. So thankful to Joan Borysenko for suggesting it.
Aug 16, 2011
Larissa
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She writes in a circular kind of way, weaving in stories that for her signify the point she is trying to make. It's hard to get accustomed to if you like linear reading, but her metaphors are beautiful. The gems are the questions she asks the reader at the end of every chapter. Taking these questions alone and meditating, writing on them was worth the read.
Mar 17, 2009
Sandy
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A good book to save and refer back to. We studied this in a women's book circle.
Dec 17, 2009
Ellie
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I'm not as impressed with this book as I was with Wayne Muller's "How, Then, Shall I Live?" Like Muller's, it's quite autobiographical, but that's basically where it stops. There are just a few questions at the end of every chapter that jar readers into engagement, rather than suggestions and exercises throughout.
Nov 25, 2008
Tan
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It was very powerful and very spiritual. It taught me how you let go in order to move on. It taught me how to allow myself to go through all the emotions I have and to understand what they mean and how to move on with life.
It's a great book about finding spirituality
It's a great book about finding spirituality
Dec 16, 2009
Mom
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I enjoy light-reading "devotional"-type books like this once in a while. This read encourages personal renewal in the crazy technological age in which we live and offers some basic insights and some unconventional wisdom also.
Nov 29, 2007
So far.. I really like this book... Still reading though.. I'll let you know what I really think when I'm done!
Aug 26, 2008
Awaken your passions and purpose with a daily reminder to forget your fears in this little book.
Aug 12, 2010
Ashlee
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This book has SO many amazing insights. I love this book and would recommend every woman to read it!
Mar 03, 2011
Kim
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I REALLY want to like this book, and marry its philosophy. But I just can't. :(
Feb 11, 2012
Mary Ellen
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Not a quick read. Each page has so much to ponder and reflect upon!
Sep 10, 2009
Sara
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This is an amazing thought-provoking story that will make you question your life and the way you will live it. I would definitely read this book again, although I have read it twice now already.
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