Da Vinci Decoded
Discovering the Spiritual Secrets of Leonardo's Seven Principles
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Descripción editorial
Cultivate your spiritual potential using wisdom from renowned artist and engineer Leonardo da Vinci, from the nationally bestselling author of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
Wonder. Appreciation. Awareness. Wholeness.
In the Western world of the fifteenth century, these personal qualities were all boldly embodied in one extraordinary man. From art to botany, anatomy to mechanics, Leonardo da Vinci was a profoundly original thinker fully in tune with the world of man and nature, and with the divine spirit that bridges the two.
In this bold guide to awakening the soul, Michael Gelb draws on Leonardo’s writings, inventions, and works of art to show how you, too, can practice the seven essential principles by which Leonardo lived and worked, including:
• Curiosità: Seek the Truth
• Dimostrazione: Take Responsibility
• Sensazione: Sharpen Awareness
• Sfumato: Engage the Shadow
• Arte/Scienza: Cultivate Balance
• Corporalità: Nurture Integration
• Connessione: Practice Love
Filled with practical exercises that will help you put each of the seven principles into use, a series of reflective questions designed for self-assessment, and inspirational sayings drawn from the world’s great wisdom traditions, Da Vinci Decoded offers a wide range of tools to use in your spiritual quest. Now you can let Leonardo and Michael Gelb be your personal guides to creating your own personal spiritual renaissance today.
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"Seven is a powerful, special number," writes Gelb, author of the similar book "How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day." Here he focuses more on the spiritual than the intellectual creativity of Da Vinci's legacy, encouraging readers to embrace the artist-cum-inventor as their "personal spiritual adviser." In the first section, Gelb reviews Da Vinci's life and teachings, answering some of the historical questions raised by Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. But this is not just another knee-jerk rebuttal to the fictional mega-seller, which he regards kindly. Rather, it's a spiritual self-help book that draws from sources ranging from the Dalai Lama and Hasidic rabbis to "Star Trek" and the writings and paintings of Leonardo himself. Gelb wants readers to employ seven Da Vinci principles on their quest: they should seek the truth, take responsibility for their search, sharpen awareness, embrace ambiguity and paradox, cultivate balance, nurture integration of the mind and body, and "practice love." For Gelb, Da Vinci emerges in these chapters as a hero who exemplifies the 21st-century trends toward religious eclecticism and an individual spirituality that is unbound by creed or dogma. The book is generally strong but sometimes uneven. Sidebars (many of which interrupt and detract from the book's narrative flow) offer tidbits on Da Vinci's resurgent popularity and much-touted sex life, quotations from a sampling of the world's sacred texts and great religious thinkers, and even magazine-style self-assessment checklists and quizzes.
