The Power of Wisdom: When You Change How You See the World, Your Whole World Changes

by Aman A. Motwane

The Power of When You Change How You See the World, Your Whole World Changes

Hardcover

First published October 1, 2000

Reviews

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

In The Power of Wisdom, the author creates his own approach to dealing with life's struggles. He breaks wisdom down into 7 categories, where taking the first letter of each spells DREAMS (and the 7th being an "E" in the middle for "Enlightenment"). This is a tidy little philosophy...cute even...and I do see that there is wisdom embedded in these pages. However, I nonetheless feel that it is a sort of recycled version of the Buddhist Dharma wheel with touches of Taoist duality mixed in.

While I found the book interesting, I would recommend that anyone searching for a philosophy just go ahead and dig into one of these other, more well-trod paths that have tons of literature to help explain these difficult concepts (such as impermanence, interdependence, and compassion). This book lays the ideas out at a high level, but the real trick with giving sage advice is enabling a student to make the rubber-meet-the-road by incorporating it into his/her daily life. For that, we typically need more than just a book; we need teachers, a community, and practices with many detailed examples of application.

I'll give the author prop's for being ambitious and doing a fairly good job of laying out a framework that is clever and concise, but I just do not think that the book could, by itself, help people legitimately shift their relationship with reality.

[Toyka]

Everyone says this book is life changing. I've really gotta read it! Took me years to find a copy.