The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
by Deepak Chopra
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Author: Deepak ChopraEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-12-26
ISBN: 051770434X
Number of pages: 169
Publisher: Harmony
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Book Review: Want to love it, but it doesn't hang together
Summary: 2 Stars
Chopra frustrates me. This is the second book of his that I've read, and both books (this one, and /The Book of Secrets/) frustrate me because Chopra is clearly an intelligent, insightful, and compassionate man; yet so far he has failed to impress me in his ability to impart his understanding in a coherent way.
/The Way of the Wizard/ has a structure of "lessons", and each lesson is divided into four parts: a group of pithy slogans to ponder, an illustrative prose story featuring Merlin and Arthur, a section on what the lesson means, and a final part on how to incorporate the lesson into your life on a practical level. That's the theory, anyway. Ultimately, most lessons appear to have rather random stuff shoved into those four sections. These various pieces, at best, hang together only loosely. At worst, entire chapters -- I mean, "lessons" -- make no sense whatsoever.
My most frequent reaction to a given paragraph or lesson is -- WHY? Why is he telling me this? How on earth is this relevant to me and my life? Despite what you'd think from the way each lesson is organized, there is in fact very little advice on practical ways to embody the "way of the wizard." Telling me that Merlin lives backward in time is funny to think about; telling me that I give birth to the universe by gazing out at it is a beautiful idea. But WHY?
Again, it frustrates me. I *want* to like this book. Chopra strikes me as an intelligent and well-intentioned man. There *are* a handful of spiritual gems scattered throughout this book. But they are only that -- a handful. Deepak Chopra would have been better off taking these few chewy morsels of food-for-thought and putting them into a small, pocket book of quotes. That would serve the reader much better and much more coherently than /Wizard/.
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Summary of The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and Ageless Body, Timeless Mind now presents a guide to using spiritual alchemy for awakening the magic in everyday life.Chopra, Deepak Books
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