Product Description
The new and original insights presented in this book take the reader beyond the confines of the good and bad of their particular life circumstances. The author points to that it is too simplistic, not to mention futile, to just value happiness, success and the positive half of life. Happiness, success, purpose and meaning aren't found at the end of some rainbow, or in a life free of the dark side. Release from pain and struggle is finding a new level of integration and a new perspective of the life we have. It points us to embrace the light and the dark and helps us realize that we are bigger and stronger than either.
Wise, earthy, practical and deeply spiritual at the same time, the author states that we all have them, those pesky "lame habits". Our family and friends will be the first ones to attest that this is so. Yet, there is no need to despair, seek mystical escape or indulge in worldly distractions. This book claims, that it is not having "lame habits" that complicate our relationships and ultimately our lives. The author encourages us to not approach our daily struggles and shortcomings as a scary beast or an exercise in who is the most enlightened. She points to the fact that we will fail, most likely hourly and daily. It is only when success and failure become isolated from each other that we begin to idolize one and fear the other.
From the Publisher
This book states that we can change our job, ground our children, move to another city, and divorce our spouse, yet we cannot escape from who we are. Ordinary life becomes an every-day practice ground of recognizing and using our dissatisfaction and struggles as the platform for achieving a higher degree of purpose and meaning. Skillful and sometimes funny, interspersed with thought provoking questions and exercises, the author guides us to first come to understand and accept our human shortcomings and then to step beyond them.
This book outlines the commonalities that govern our experiencing, reacting and choosing in our personal lives and offers invaluable suggestions on how to turn the life we have into the life we want.
