PRESCRIPTION FOR LIVING

RUHIYYIH RABBANI (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Baha'I PUBLISHING TRUST (1989)
• ISBN-10: 8186953450
• ISBN-13: 978-8186953457
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,347,553 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Want to reform the world? The best place to start is with ourselves and this is the perfect guidebook, May 10, 2008

By	Donna Sires "penguin lover" (Newberg, OR United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Prescription for Living (Paperback)

Written in 1950 with the atrocities of WWII fresh on the mind, this guidebook to a better life is just as applicable today as it was 58 years ago. I met Ruhiyyih Rabbani in the 1970's and was impressed by her frankness and wisdom. As I read this book I could hear her voice guiding her audience. She doesn't pull any punches. She tells it to you just how it is and puts life in perspective.
The book begins by pointing out the trouble with humanity and the dissatisfaction people as a whole feel with their lives and the world around them. She goes on to explain the nature of humanity and how we can find the road to happiness. As a doctor gives us a prescription to improve our physical health, Ruhiyyih Rabbani gives us the guidelines for improving our spiritual health. She covers Love and Marriage, Death, Work, Habit, Sorrow and Trial. Every reader can relate to her words. She then goes on to give us a brief overview of the lives and personalities of The Báb, Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá. Their trials and how they lived their lives serve as an inspiration to better ourselves. The last chapter sums it all up perfectly:
"World reform is personal reform. The old maxims, `water cannot rise above its own level,' `a chain is as strong as its weakest link,' are nothing but truth. If you do not like the conditions that surround you, if you want to see changes in society, begin on yourself. This is something ready to hand, always under your own eye, and which, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, badly needs overhauling! For it stands to reason that if you are better the world will be better; there will be that much more gold in the ore of humanity, because one of its components will be of a finer caliber."
This book gives us the tools, in clear and simple terms, of how to improve our character and become happy human beings. If each person could take even one aspect of this book and apply it to their life, the world would be a much better place to live in.

5.0 out of 5 stars Prescription for Living, April 5, 2007

By	cortezhill (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Prescription for Living (Paperback)

The subject of this challenging book is man's present unhappiness, confusion, and uncertainty. The author has peculiar qualifications to write on this problem. Canadian by birth, growing up in the Western world, Ruhiyyih Rabbani married in 1937 the head of the Bahai Faith, one of the most remarkable spiritual movements of our time. She lives in Haifa, at the foot of Mount Carmel, and adds to her own experienc of East and West, through worldwide travel and correspondence, a deep appreciation and understanding of human beings of diverse races and cultures.

With sympathy, assurance and humour, the author phases, in homely terms, truths which are at once arresting and provacative. She speaks directly to the individual of the dynamic laws of spiritual life - the presription for living in the world today.
--- from book's back cover