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Summary: A gem of a book ! The kind you can give all your friends.
Review: " Callings " is very readable with lots of practical insights on how to live the life you really want and stop dragging through the one you allready have. Gregg has made me think of my life and how I'm living it in a whole different way and I'm acting on those callings - finally !!
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Summary: Kol-Hakavod, In Hebrew : The highest Respect and Honor
Review: A must read for anybody searching for a way to put his/her life on the "right track". Gregg Levoy gives us a wealth of practical guidance how to listen to our unconscious, believe and trust, how to overcome fears and doubts. He inspires us to be aligned with our callings, take action and in the process save ourselves and maybe save the world too.
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Summary: Competes with Bartlett's
Review: A very interesting book, yet I found it difficult because nearly every page contained one to three quotations introduced in the following manner..."As _______ wrote..."
"_______ said..." After a while, I felt more that I was reading Levoy's collection of other people's inspirational nuggets than gaining any insight he had. Five stars for research. Three stars for readability.
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Summary: What the heck was that all about?!!!
Review: Apparently, I'm the only person who found this book extremely tiresome. It was like trying to read Jungian philosophy as if written by Henry James. By the time you get to the bottom of the page, you've forgotten what the point was in the first place! Round and round and round we go and where he stops, nobody knows! Additionally, I found all of the quotes distracting and for the most part, unnecessary. Perhaps the reason Levoy used them is because he can't claim to be an expert in this field and had to back up his statements with those of other, more well-known experts. This book is not for someone looking for a clear direction in which to proceed. However, if you like spirituality and new-age philosophy in the abstract, then I guess you'll like this book. However, it was for me, as "Bill the Cat" would say, "Aaack!!"
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Summary: A must read for everyone searching for their purpose
Review: Callings is an excellent book. I have been personally challenged to search deeper, listen for the small inner voice, and scope out my callings. The authors writing style was simply poetic. I could envision every detail in every example he told. I have been recommending this book to everyone weather they know that they are searching or not.
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Summary: Cosmic Truth
Review: Callings is one of the best, most intrigueing books I have ever read. Gregg Levoy not only sets a new standard in the literary world, but also invites a new way of life with his seductive prose. This book is the escape hatch from a reality of enertia to a world of magical enthusiasm as it unlocks an existence beyond the mundane. I can't think of anything more prevalent for a society who is mesmerized by vague entertainment and somewhat numb from its daily doses of propaganda.
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Summary: Mr. Levoy's book is pure gift.
Review: Every so often a book comes along that washes over you like cool spring water. I am so glad that Gregg Levoy followed his "calling." His book is to be treasured.
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Summary: Levoy is inspiring
Review: Gregg Levoy is a great storyteller, telling stories about people who's lives were off track and unfulfilled. He maps their different lives and the different methods they used to find their passions, leading to happy, fulfilled lives. If you're "stuck," and wondering what's next, this book can help. It doesn't reveal the answers--that's up to you, but it reveals how to listen to your inner voice, methods to express your inner voice, and other means to find and follow your passion. I'm reading this book a second time through and it's just as inspiring as the first time. It's solid, inspiring advice written by someone who's been there.
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Summary: A book to savor, page by page.
Review: Gregg Levoy's book literally fell into my hands at my public library. Since then I have purchased it as my own. It is a deeply spiritual and invigorating piece of work which has made me become more aware of the messages around me.. A powerful related experience is when I happened to be talking to an acquaintence who was expressing her frustration with her life in general. I said I was reading a book that might help her. She said she had begun reading a book, too. She had been to a large book store in a metro area and turned to come face-to-face with a book. When I asked her the name of it, I gasped when she said, "Callings." Read this book and open your ears, mind, and soul.
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Summary: Hearing a call...
Review: Hearing a call is a very difficult discernment process. Sometimes the call is clear, but the path is not. Sometimes the path is clear, but the desire is not. Gregg Levoy has done an exceptional job at being an in-print spiritual director for those seeking an entrance into the process of finding a true calling and a more authentic life. What is right for me? and Where am I willing to be led? are the two essential questions -- Discernment requires that we ask these two questions continually and devotedly. As Levoy says, 'people won't pursue their callings until the fear of doing so is finally exceeded by the pain of not doing so.' I have found this to be very true. It took a very long time to discern my call to the priesthood, and yet more time to decide that it is something I must do at all costs (and the costs have been heavy). Yet, I cannot imagine myself doing anything differently and being in any way fulfilled. 'The truest calls seem not only to keep coming back but also to make their way to us through many channels.' Levoy integrates so much material here, from spiritual masters and the scriptural traditions of many religious faiths to modern psychology and artistic/cultural experts. Perhaps the greatest chapter for me was that on 'Finding Clarity', in which Levoy says that 'there is such a thing as thinking too much about a calling.' As Emerson said, sometimes it is best to let the bird sing without trying to decipher the song. 'A calling is ultimately mysterious, and the process of discernment is always a bit of a guessing game.' Levoy's guidance, in cooperation with others in my community, helped me to see a change of mindset, a change of events, a change of personalities were all converging to tell me something that I had closed my mind to, or, more accurately, had closed my heart to. So, I began to pray, even if only subconsciously, and the path began to materialise before my eyes. 'When I pray, coincidences start to happen. When I don't pray, they don't happen.' - William Temple It also taught me that I couldn't wait for 'someday' -- how we spend our days is how we spend our lives, according to the apt observation of Annie Dillard. And finally, it made me face what it was to keep saying no. There is a cost, and eventually God will get you anyway -- Jonah (remember Jonah and the great fish?) said no, but eventually had follow his call anyway. I learned that one source of my fear: 'One of the frightening prospects of saying yes to a calling is that you may find out who really supports you and who doesn't.' Figuring out how to bring my call into being was the final task, and Levoy provided wisdom here as well. 'You cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps', he quoted Lloyd-George as saying; I was forced to create a response to my call, one that did not exist before. Thus, not too long after discovering this book, I became Father Kurt, and I owe much to this book for that. But please, don't assume that it will tempt or trap you into a ministerial role--it is an excellent guide for discernment, and discernment is one of the most personal tasks for any human being. Prepare to be enlightened.
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