Twenty Steps to Wisdom: A Guide to Self-Knowledge and Spiritual Well-Being - Hardcover

James PhD, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557043027 ISBN 13: 9781557043023

Verlag: William Morrow, 1997

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This is a time when we are hungry to know more. Our stomachs are full, and we wonder if our souls are empty. We yearn for the return of wisdom. If civilization is the “long process of learning to be kind,” then wisdom is the shared memories through the ages that guide us toward that goal. The problem is remembering what we have learned. There is a known path to wisdom and to joy. There is a beginning step; there is no endpoint. You have already started on the way. You only need to be reminded in this fast-moving world of what you know. We need to tap our collective memory. Here are twenty steps, from awakening to transformation, followed by virtually every religious and philosophical tradition, described by great minds and prophets, that have guided the best of our culture for 3000 years. Simple steps, familiar, but as the wisdom journey itself, profound, passionate, and enlightening.

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Jennifer James, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist who has spent her life trying to understand how our belief systems either enhance or limit our lives. A much in-demand speaker, television and radio commentator, and newspaper columnist, Dr. James is also the author of Success Is the Quality of Your Journey, Windows, Life Is a Game of Choice, Defending Yourself Against Criticism: The Slug Manual, Women and the Blues, and Thinking in the Future Tense. She lives by Puget Sound, just south of Seattle, Washington.

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This is a time when we are hungry to knowmore. Our stomachs are full, and we wonderif our souls are empty. We yearn forthe return of wisdom. If civilization is the“long process of learning to be kind,” thenwisdom is the shared memories throughthe ages that guide us toward that goal.The problem is remembering what wehave learned.

There is a known path to wisdom and tojoy. There is a beginning step; there is noendpoint. You have already started on theway. You only need to be reminded in thisfast-moving world of what you know. Weneed to tap our collective memory.

Here are twenty steps, from awakening totransformation, followed by virtuallyevery religious and philosophical tradition,described by great minds andprophets, that have guided the best of ourculture for 3000 years.

Simple steps, familiar, but as the wisdomjourney itself, profound, passionate, andenlightening.

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• Verlag: William Morrow
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1557043027
• ISBN 13: 9781557043023
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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