A fabulously inspirational, fresh and delicious journey with a dose of hard reality, a great read for anyone who wants to fashion a more healthy life and knows all too well the ride cannot possibly be all peachy. Ava Greene’s memoir took me on an introspective, challenging, sometimes painful, always fun, trek in search of better habits, better health, better spiritual path, a better self – the “wobbly ladder of self-improvement”. Aside from connecting with her drive to find enlightenment and being present, I found most compelling not just her advances but her slipups, the natural Sisyphean rumble we all experience striving for a better life. And, in the end, she reminds us that “the journey isn’t to enlighten. A state of bliss isn’t waiting for us to get there. There’s nowhere to get to on the journey. There’s no there there. Enlightenment is the journey.”
Unlike many books of its ilk, “Some Swamis are Fat” gave me honest hope, not because of any proselytizing about how to live a meaningful, joyful life, but because she tells us when she backslides on the “soppy” path and then keeps going, stumbles again, pulls herself back up and overcomes her fear. It’s instructional, realistic and, well, satisfying to read about the reality of a strong women’s quest, honest about all the backsliding, inspiring us to keep slogging up the hill. I gave this journal to my daughter for Christmas – a little way of saying that the journey is hard, sometimes it takes you back a few steps and then a few more, but it can always be rewarding if we don’t give up
Beautifully written and full of sublime gems (“There’s a searing full moon bleaching the blackness out there tonight….”).
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