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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Dawna Markova
Genre : Memoir, Nonfiction
In this deeply personal book Dawna explores five stages of coming to live “on purpose”—through the lens of her own experiences and her 28-year struggle with cancer. This book follows her path to finding deeper meaning in life. As she points out, people can continue to feel powerless and live habitual lives – or they can make the choice to follow their passion.
This is a book I read over and over again, like Gifts of the Sea by Ann Morrow Lindberg to remind myself to be a human being, not always a human doing. In these times of rapid social and technological transformation, nothing is more important than learning the skills of personal renewal. Dawna’s book is the best book on the subject. In a thoughtful and poetic form, she teaches us how to navigate our lives from the inside out so that rather than being at the mercy of life’s changes, we are able to offer to the world the gifts that are ours alone to give.
“I think cancer was my soul’s desperate attempt to get me to pay attention to its needs for intimacy, authentic expression, creativity, and replenishing solitude. It sits on my left side whispering insistent questions that I cannot answer but still must explore. Who am I when I stop doing, when I am not a caretaker as my mother was or a boss as my father was? What have Ii come here to give? What is unfinished for me to learn, to experience? Am I leaving a legacy that enables others to live better lives than I have? These are questions that belong to all of us. Any life crisis brings up issues of the purpose of one’s life and the passion to lives.”
“We all have islands of fear inside us, but we also all have continents of wisdom and truth. How do we find our way to them when are are not educated in the interior dimensions? These inner landscapes hold the pattern of our passion and purpose Without knowing how to journey there, our lives remain unlived.”
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