Book Reviews
Callings, by
Greg Levoy
Levoy explores how we can be called to our "true" vocations by
learning to listen to our inner voice, which speaks to us through
intuitions and longings, and to life's recurring and significant
details, giving us clues to our authentic journey.
Everyday Zen,
Charolette Joko Beck
Joko Beck writes that life, as it is at this moment–-at any moment-–
is all that it can be and is, therefore, "perfect." We destroy that
perfection and create problems for ourselves by filtering experience
through our hopes, fears, prejudices and expectations, which prevent
us from living in the present moment.
Finding Flow,
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In our desire and hurry to prepare our students to
handle the experiences they will face in life, perhaps we have
forgotten a more important point: it is not the experiences we have
which give quality and meaning to our lives, but how we relate to
those experiences.
Living without a Goal,
James Ogilvy
Living without a Goal is based on the thesis that our
mechanistic, goal-oriented paradigm for life no longer meets our
needs in the evolutionary, postmodern world. James Ogilvy does not
espouse total "goallessness" as a rule for living. We do need goals,
but not the overriding, great "Goal of Life" that has been the
paradigm in the past.
Will I Be the Hero of My
Own Life?, Swami Chetanananda
Will I Be the Hero of My Own Life? provides an
alternative mode of seeing life and work, and gives us a refreshing,
and organic, understanding of what it means to be a hero in our own
lives