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I Will Not Live an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose
In "I Will Not Die an Unlived Life," one of the most charismatic teachers and thinkers of today speaks from her heart. Twenty years ago, faced with a life-threatening illness, Dawna Markova began a journey of rediscovery. This book follows her path to finding deeper meaning in life. As she points out, people can continue to feel powerless and live habitual lives - or they...more
ebook, 208 pages
Published
October 1st 2000
by Conari Press
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Nov 22, 2011
Elyse
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3 of 5 stars
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Recommended to Elyse by:
My mother; my sister
Shelves:
2011,
inspiration
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 navigate through discerning our...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 navigate through discerning our...more
I didn't agree with all of her choices; but, with that said, this book came along at a much-needed time of my life. This book brought me some new perspectives. I have to say, this was very much a part of my stepping out of the past and into the future...
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.
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.
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?
This did not help me reclaim purpose or passion, and I read it three times. But there were a few really "ahah" moments in there for me.
They say that the book finds you and so it was with this little tome- right book- right time.
Inspirational on living the life you were intended too - not the one you settle for.
It was like talking to a good friend over coffee. I feel refreshed an renewed.
Loved, loved, loved this book. Lots of highlighting and dog-ear pages
Tremendous.
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.
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.
A good book to save and refer back to. We studied this in a women's book circle.
Oct 30, 2007
Ellie
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
the self-help contingent
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.
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
Sep 10, 2011
John Sorensen
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
self-help,
self-improvement
Outstanding. I really enjoyed this book.
May 25, 2007
Mom
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
female readers
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.
Jan 28, 2008
Andie
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
anyone wishing to listen to their inner teachers
It is like Dawna Markova is talking to me as she writes. I love how she invites me into her way of living, dying and living again in her life.
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Nov 29, 2007
Kerilyn
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So far.. I really like this book... Still reading though.. I'll let you know what I really think when I'm done!
Didn't finish - not sure this is to be read as a novel. More like a book you come back to again and again.
Awaken your passions and purpose with a daily reminder to forget your fears in this little book.
This book has SO many amazing insights. I love this book and would recommend every woman to read it!
I REALLY want to like this book, and marry its philosophy. But I just can't. :(
Not a quick read. Each page has so much to ponder and reflect upon!
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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“I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible;
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance,
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom,
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.”
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I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible;
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance,
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom,
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.”
