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Love and Courage

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I think this book depicts the art of life... and give the best advice to live by. Everyone should have this in their book collections.

Hugh Prather expresses love and courage in this book through his honesty. I get the sense that he never sees his doubt and despair as separate from his faith. He doesn't circumvent tough topics. He allows his reader to find relief through the enormous generosity of his writing. In this book he manages to hold up the mirror of humanity and that is both comforting and humbling. RIP Hugh Prather.

I have heard that this author is somewhat of a celebrity in that he has enjoyed many a college class contemplating his work and many a coffee shop goer muse over his poetic tidbits. I am not sure I can fully sympathise with his breakdown of the human existence and interpersonal relationships that affect us all. I was moved by several of the short nuggets of prose that were exhumed from a splattering of ideas on a dart board. I have heard it said that if you throw enough darts at a dart board, you will hit the bulls-eye at least once. I think this is true of this work. That is not to say that it is intrinsically bad by any means. I just see too much mash-up of ideas and emotion that possibly lead to revelation when set in a whole but as a finished work it seems just to scatterbrained. I want some more organization in the writing. I prefer if you are reading things that just don't seem to make sense at first later lead to some greater enlightenment. It is almost as though Prather is should be leading to larger and more intimate divulgences that leave the reader with a more poignant understanding of his angst and then we could ourselves then possibly draw a parallel to our own lives.