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Summary: LIVE EACH DAY TO THE FULLEST; STRIVE TO BE HAPPY!
Review: "The Road Less Travelled" is a unique blend of psychology and spirituality; it is food for the soul and the heart. As a counsellor, I have recommended this book to clients, especially to those with addiction problems, and received very positive feedback. One comes to terms with the realization that it is not how many years we spend on this Earth that is important, it is what we do with the little time we have here that truly matters. Dream a little, laugh a lot; cry a little, love a lot. Accept life's challenges and obstacles and CHOOSE to be happy, anyway. If you think life has dealt you a bad deal, and perhaps it has, just look around and you will find others with far greater challenges than you ever imagined. There is nothing quite so sad as one who has lost hope, or has set no personal goals or expectations. This book gives the reader a fresh insight and courage into setting goals, accepting what we cannot change and finding the courage to change what we can. One of the best ways we can overcome our own personal difficulties is to reach out and touch the hearts of those in greater need, and the world is filled with people desperately in need of understanding, love, acceptance, food, warmth, and shelter. By doing just one good thing for someone else each and every day, you will find your own life truly enriched a thousand times over. This book provides courage to those who are afraid, hope to those in despair and strength to those who are weak. The author gives the reader much food for thought, and is bound to leave you soul searching for the true meaning and purpose of life.
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Summary: LIVE EACH DAY TO THE FULLEST; STRIVE TO BE HAPPY!
Review: "The Road Less Travelled" is a unique blend of psychology and spirituality; it is food for the soul and the heart. As a counsellor, I have recommended this book to clients, especially to those with addiction problems, and received very positive feedback. One comes to terms with the realization that it is not how many years we spend on this Earth that is important, it is what we do with the little time we have here that truly matters. Dream a little, laugh a lot; cry a little, love a lot. Accept life's challenges and obstacles and CHOOSE to be happy, anyway. If you think life has dealt you a bad deal, and perhaps it has, just look around and you will find others with far greater challenges than you ever imagined. There is nothing quite so sad as one who has lost hope, or has set no personal goals or expectations. This book gives the reader a fresh insight and courage into setting goals, accepting what we cannot change and finding the courage to change what we can. One of the best ways we can overcome our own personal difficulties is to reach out and touch the hearts of those in greater need, and the world is filled with people desperately in need of understanding, love, acceptance, food, warmth, and shelter. By doing just one good thing for someone else each and every day, you will find your own life truly enriched a thousand times over. This book provides courage to those who are afraid, hope to those in despair and strength to those who are weak. The author gives the reader much food for thought, and is bound to leave you soul searching for the true meaning and purpose of life.
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Summary: The Answers Are Already In You.....
Review: ...it takes a little hard work and discipline to find them. Peck's title "The Road Less Travelled" is taken from the Frost poem; it's context somehow denoted that great leaders travel one lone path, while the huddled masses travel the other..... but in my opinion it should mean to attempt to use spirituality to help provide solutions to problems in the difficult tasks, and choices of a living, growing being....few people really do this, although a bunch say they do and they are "punching all the right buttons" to seem like they do. That's what this book, to me, is about. A path on the spiritual journey. Peck's well-informed insights. A look at how we really are inside. Afterall, it has been said that the Kingdom of Heaven is within. Peck's case histories and anecdotes show that the positive step is generally the appropriate step and while it should not be not be used in place of serious counselling in all cases, "The Road Less Travelled" gives some excellent reading and "water to help nuture our spiritual gardens" so that we can ultimately make wise decisions about our world and our souls. Love is the Answer. Whether in gaining the discipline and balance required to meet life head on or in "extending oneself" to another.....
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Summary: Relieved
Review: A Road Less Traveled helped me more than a year of therapy did. I'm so relieved that getting back on my feet is only a matter of a lot of finely focused hard work. I wish I had read this twelve years ago, as a very confused teenager, and am glad it came along as I'm going to be a parent.
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Summary: Not much useful information here.
Review: Author spends too much time psycohoanalyzing the details of causitive factors from an unhealthy childhood (more than half the tape)and not enough time giving any useful information on what the adult can do to improve their self-discipline. He could easily turn someone off with his very spiritual and psychoanalytical way of speaking.I found his style a little too flowery to hold my attention. Bottom line is that I found very little helpful information on this tape.
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Summary: The mother of all self-help books
Review: By now, this book has probably outsold the Bible. On the bestseller list for a gazillion weeks, template for a thousand imitators (and not a few sequels), guiding light for millions of spiritual seekers, "The Road Less Traveled" may be one of the most quietly influential books of the last quarter-century. Which is a great pity, because it's a bad book.
The flaw lies not in its overtly Christian message, nor in its rather Puritan insistence on discipline and labor. Such beliefs are not to be mocked. No - I object to this book because I think it is simply meanspirited, a sadly cocksure display of guru-ship that is not different in kind from EST or Scientology. It gains an audience by convincing the reader of some terrible, insurmountable character flaw, but holds out only a few vague platitudes as solutions. It's classic bait-and-switch, successful only because it causes the very self-doubt its rhetoric seeks to relieve. Friends who've read the book say what a great comfort it is - but are unhappier after reading it. Thus, hoplessly, they read it again, and again, and commend it to their friends...and no one gains by it. Rather like some addicting drug, or a beautiful promise that always remains unfulfilled.
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Summary: Perceptive, but Needs Updating
Review: Dr. Peck is an acute observer of human nature, and backs up his case with powerful case studies. His points about love being an act of willed generosity and attention to another still resonate twenty years plus after the book's publication. That said, it could use some updating to incorporate some social changes off the last twenty years. There's a particularly discordant note struck about midway through, when, unless I'm misunderstanding something, Peck suggests that the moment "the passive homosexual gathers the courage to ask a girl on a date" represents some kind of courage. This is at odds with the book's message of self-acceptance, honesty and getting together the guts to live your life.
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Summary: Perceptive, but Needs Updating
Review: Dr. Peck is an acute observer of human nature, and backs up his case with powerful case studies. His points about love being an act of willed generosity and attention to another still resonate twenty years plus after the book's publication. That said, it could use some updating to incorporate some social changes off the last twenty years. There's a particularly discordant note struck about midway through, when, unless I'm misunderstanding something, Peck suggests that the moment "the passive homosexual gathers the courage to ask a girl on a date" represents some kind of courage. This is at odds with the book's message of self-acceptance, honesty and getting together the guts to live your life.
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Summary: Cannot trust this author
Review: He thinks, or pretends to think that the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics proves that Evolution by Natural Selection is impossible. What else is he wrong about?
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Summary: Good Book
Review: I am a therapist. The two books I recommend to my clients that seem to produced lasting results are The Road Less Traveled and An Encouter With A Prophet. I also recommend both books to all of my friends and relatives.
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