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Summary: Simply Wonderful!
Review: You read a page a day. Helps keep you centered and balanced -emotionally and spiritually. Says it's written for women, but if you don't mind the sexual bias or like to think in a positive way about your life, family, or home, it doesn't matter what sex you are. I consider myself a normal male and thoroughly enjoy the book. It's a feel good about life and get back to being your true self book. I've given away 17 copies as gifts.
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Summary: You Are Your Own Treasure!
Review: Sarah Ban Breathnach has definitely spent time in searching for her soul. Her words breathe life into those who are tired, discouraged, miserable and unhappy but do not know why. Sarah unravels the mysteries of the real answers by sharing her own inner struggles and how she went about discovering what she was looking for. She was looking for the truth about herself. I have found that it is a long journey but one worth taking--this road to wholeness. And I firmly believe with Sarah that you cannot truly give yourself fully and freely to anyone until you have given love to yourself. It is the most unselfish thing any woman could do and it is imperative that women learn to make themselves (their emotional, spiritual, mental needs) a top priority. If we take care of our own souls first, we will have the energy and vitality to do more than we have ever dreamed.
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Summary: Helpful daily guide
Review: This is a great daily guide. It really captures the essence of abundance. I put this book in the same high category as "Creating Extraordinary Joy" by Chris Alexander.
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Summary: A Life Changing Book
Review: This book changed my life....I recommend it highly, especially to anyone going through a difficult period such as illness or divorce. It helps you understand how you got where you are now and shows you how to make your days more fulfilling. It also reminds you that you need to take care of yourself, which is something most of us do not do. You have to be committed to set aside quiet time each day for reading, and actually want to make a change, or you'll just be wasting your time.
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Summary: Simple Abundance and More.....
Review: After reading this book each day for three years running, I took a break this year. But in 2002 I plan to pick it up again because I think it serves as a wonderful daily reminder for one to nourish one's spirit and to express gratitude for life's blessings.It's a timeless book that will never go out of date. Still, I hope to see Simple Abundance II, someday. Might I add that for fans of Simple Abundance -- or for that matter, anyone who is in search of self and her -- or his -- place in the world, the book "Gift From the Sea," by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, is a perfect companion book to Sara Ban Breathnach's work. It is a book that was written in 1955, yet still manages to fully articulate the inner struggles so many people today -- and most particularly women today -- are trying to come to grips with. At the same time it illustrates that as much as we would like to believe that much of what occurs in our lives is a new occurence, the fact is that there truly is nothing new under the sun, that these struggles just persist from generation to generation. How can one not think she speaks directly to women of both the 20th and 21st (and probably the 22nd) centuries when she writes: "With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or children. It has to do primarily with distractions. The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls -- woman's normal occupations in counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. The problem is not merely one of Woman and Career, Woman and the Home, Woman and Independence. It is more basically: how to remain whole in the midst of the distractions of life; how to remain balance, no matter what centrifugal forces tend to pull one off center; how to remain strong, no matter what shocks come in at the periphery and tend to crack the hub of the wheel"
I can barely in a few quotes pay this book the respect it deserves.It's like Simple Abundance times three.Suffice it to say that I highly recommend this book.In fact, I suspect it is going to be my goal in 2002 to put it in the hands of many friends, family members and acquaintances!
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Summary: i love it/does not mesh with husband
Review: I love hearth and home - never happier than to be in the present-- and your book helps me do so - my mate, though, does NOT appreciate- the value of these concepts - we don't need the money ,but he would like to see me do something else other than tend my son, his growing friendships,taking care of the home - does he know how much a happy maid costs?? yours in gender disconnect Liz
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Summary: Pleasantly inspiring
Review: This book didn't set me on fire, but I've enjoyed it returning to it over time. It offers perspectives I don't always think of, in manageable, nightly chunks. It's a nice gift.
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Summary: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy & Challenge
Review: I've purchased this book for every one of my close friends and recommend it to anyone I talk to who seems to be struggling with dissatisfaction in their life. This book can be a catalyst for a life-changing experience if the reader is open to it. The ideas you'll find here are nothing new, it's timeless wisdom you might have run across in any great spiritual book; they're insights you might have found in the novels you've read and in the movies you've seen. But when they are gathered together and you encounter them a day at a time and you take the time to do the work proposed by the author, they can encourage you on your journey through life. I'm coming to the close of my third year with this book and will begin again in January. Every year it speaks to me differently, not because the book changes (obviously) but because I have.
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Summary: Overall disappointed
Review: This book came highly reccommended to me. I faithfully spent the days of the year 2000 on it, waiting for it to get better. There were occasional insights, but overall it was much of the same self-help stuff that is and has already been out there. If someone is just embarking on a journey to authenticity/spirituality it mey be a good starting point, but for one who has already been active on such a journey, don't waste your time.
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Summary: Daily Grounding to Simple Living
Review: This book is one of THE most prized books I own. I recommend it to any woman. It consistently feeds the soul without a lot of jargon. It encourages women to honor, use, and appreciate the opportunity we, have of making a house a home---a rarity in this day and age.
If you're interested in celebrating the home, creating simple pleasures in life, and making nearly painless positive changes in your thoughts and actions, you'll treasure this book.
How long has it been since you looked forward to the next day's adventure?
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