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The Great Work Of Your Life: A Guide For The Journey To Your True Calling (2012)

by Stephen Cope(Favorite Author)

4.3 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0345535685 (ISBN13: 9780345535689)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Bantam

review 1: A book to keep nearby. Examples from history and modern life of how to live, how to proceed, how to understand life. Whether or not you've read the Bhagavad Gita, whether or not you care to, you will feel the tension between action and non-action, between questioning and knowing. How do we make a life decision - what comes into play. How we are similar to and different from each other all at the same time. A lovely book, and important to me and many people I know.
review 2: I've read the Bhagavad Gita before. Never understood it. Cope helped me understand his interpretation of it.He talks about the concept of dharma, which means: sacred duty, vocation, calling, destiny. It's what you were born to do. He says that the Gita is all about this dharma busin... moreess.Ok. So, find your dharma, do it with all your heart, don't concern yourself with success or failure, do it for God, and you'll be saved, happy, etc. Not a bad idea.He tells stories about famous and not so famous people who found their dharma, did it full out, didn't concern themselves with success of failure, and offered it all to God. It was a nice read. It flowed like a novel. I'd recommend it.Now I'm off to find my dharma. I think I know what it is already. I've known it for over 40 years. Now to practice it selflessly and with all my heart. Cope says it will save me. Whatever that might mean. less

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