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What Matters Most
- Living a More Considered Life
- De: James Hollis Ph.D.
- Narrado por: Jim Bond
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 132
Taking a fresh look at the concept of happiness, Hollis uses a warm, accessible tone to encourage listeners to learn to tolerate ambiguity, embrace growth rather than security, respect the power of Eros, engage spiritual crises, and acknowledge the shadow of mortality. Providing inspiring wisdom and personal reflections to address our deepest worries, What Matters Most yields far more than mere self-help clichés.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Leaves Other Self-Help Books In the Dust
- De EC en 10-27-09
- What Matters Most
- Living a More Considered Life
- De: James Hollis Ph.D.
- Narrado por: Jim Bond
Who could resist a title like this?
Revisado: 01-02-13
James Hollis has become my wise guide in my personal journey of self-exploration, and his Jungian approach is a welcome change for me. I am still reading (or listening!) to this book, but I wanted to point out my conviction that it is dense with meaning and import, very much like Through a Dark Wood. I try to listen to it in small doses, interrupt my listening, and then reflect on what I have just heard, and then go on. It is not a book to whiz through or take lightly. It is a book that stimulates reflexion and self-examination.
Unfortunately it seems as if I am just at the beginning of this process, and there is so much that I don't know about myself; What Matters Most offers me some hope that I can make some progress in what I am beginning to regard as the most important work I may ever do in my life.
I am attracted to dream-work as a way of getting in touch with what is going on in "the basement" of myself, and Hollis's discussion of some of his patients' dreams shows what can be learned about oneself from dreams. It is a new endeavor for me, but I was reassured about the problem of the elusiveness of the dream's message by another audiobook: Clarissa Pinkola Estes's Beginner's Guide to Dream Interpretation, who says that a dream with an important message will recur until it has been received by the dreamer.
When I was much younger I bought Ann Faraday's Dream Power and The Dream Game (wish Audible had these available as audiobooks!) and spent some time writing down and interpreting my dreams by association, but I found that it was, although very revealing and important, anxiety-producing to a certain extent, and so I stopped it.
I am delighted now to have discovered audiobooks and to have the time to resume my progress on this important path of self-exploration, for which James Hollis has become an important counsellor.
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A Life at Work
- The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do
- De: Thomas Moore
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
Best-selling author and internationally known lecturer Thomas Moore finds people everywhere he goes who express unhappiness with their work lives and ask, "Why am I doing what I'm doing?" In A Life at Work, Moore takes listeners through the transformative process of discovering their deepest purpose in life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wish I had it when I was in the thick of things!
- De Quintus en 01-02-13
- A Life at Work
- The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do
- De: Thomas Moore
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
Wish I had it when I was in the thick of things!
Revisado: 01-02-13
I find audiobooks the best way to enjoy a classic like A Life at Work because of my increasingly age-and-computer-dimmed eyesight. I wish that I had had this book when I was in the thick of things--I think it might have helped, if I could have relaxed enough to take it all in! Even now, it makes me think about the work and career choices I made and how they might have been different. The pressure of the need for money and pressures from society and family make it difficult for many people to choose work that is good for them. I didn't know myself very well at all when I was young, and I don't now, so this is a book that provokes thought and self-examination. I am still going through it, but I wanted to say something about my impressions midway through it. This book is a marker on my journey of self-exploration and I am glad I bought it and hope it will help you think a bit more about who you are, which is really a life-long process of investigation...
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