09Jun
Posted by thai woodcarving
By Rick Fields
Product Description
Every day of your life can be a spiritual adventure!Make all the ordinary experiences of your life a part of your path to enlightenment. Whether balancing a checkbook, working in an office or factory, raising a family– Chop Wood, Carry Water shows you how to integrate the events of modern living into a quest for spiritual fulfillment.Based on the classic, inspirational bestseller, this unique program offers advice, insight, information, humor, and encouragement from the spiritual masters of the past and the most innovative thinkers of today. From Lao Tze to Mother Teresa, from Socrates to Margaret Mead, this audio compendium of practical wisdom shows you that the true guide to a more joyous, productive inner journey is ultimately yourself.
Customer Reviews
Chop Wood, Carry Water
This book is a wonderful guide to help in all areas of our lives.
Good quotes, but what exactly is the point?
If you want a book that has interesting spiritual quotes, but doesn’t take a specific stand on any of them…this is your book; it’s really more of a "spiritual quote book" edited by a politically correct quorom of authors. It struck me that it was almost like I was sitting next to a hippie who has deeply studied religions, but thanks to all the pot they’ve smoked, can’t really decipher what the point of the quotes was in the first place, and who lives his life by none of them.
Don’t get me wrong, it has a lot of great quotes; however, if you have any inkling at all of what kind of spirituality you’d like to explore, you’re better getting a more specific book. This book hits in such a broad way as to make it’s chapters somewhat irrelevant in the final analysis. I understand that their goal is to cover what every major philosophical/religious idea is, but it seems kind of silly to have "modern humanist perspectives" next to Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, and Confucianist statements. It’s basically a poorly designed text book that was written without analytical analysis.
I guess that a lot of the book strikes me as more of a "nobody’s right" approach to spiritualism that is dangerously close to moral relativism. My feeling is that if you want to study what the great teachers, philosophers, and religious icons think, you’re better off studying them specifically, as this book tries to please everyone, and likely pleases very few.
