The Four Purposes of Life
Finding Meaning and Direction In a Changing World
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3.7 • 35 Ratings
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Publisher Description
For many of us, life seems like a puzzle with missing pieces. We form plans and change them; we choose one path then another, trying to find the right mate and career, hoping that we’ve made the right decision and that it will all work out. At some point, we ask ourselves the central question: What is the purpose of my life?
Few writers approach the topic of life purpose with the clarity of Dan Millman, whose prior book, The Life You Were Born to Live, reached more than a million readers worldwide. In The Four Purposes of Life, Millman distills decades of exploration and experience into a concise map of what we’re here to accomplish on our life’s journey.
This book is for anyone seeking deeper insight into themselves and their lives, but especially for those at a crossroads, facing a challenge or change, when past approaches no longer apply.
These four purposes — learning life’s lessons; finding your career and calling; discovering your life path; and attending to this arising moment — will bring your life into sharper focus by revealing:
• the value of everyday challenges
• how to make wiser decisions
• your twelve required courses in the school of life
• a mysterious system that clarifies your hidden calling
• keys to mastering the most important purpose of all
The Four Purposes of Life can generate a quantum leap in self-knowledge, insight, and wisdom. The seeds planted will bear fruit for years to come.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Millman, author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior, shares more of the ideas that are central to his way of life and well being in the hopes of leading others onto their true path. Millman's system ("Life-Purposes") is simple: self-examination; goal-making; decision-making; finding a passion; and conscious living. Relying on the words of philosophers both current and historical (Oprah and Kierkegaard both appear), the author finds a new twist for this addition to the genre he knows so well. The "School of Life" he argues, has only 12 subjects, among them self-worth, courage, sexuality, and service. He shares ways to earn a "Pass" grade from that great campus called Earth. Finding a calling is a more profound challenge than advancing career or finding "satisfying" work, and Millman doesn't make this distinction often enough. One purpose finds the author re-imagining the western horoscope; birth numbers can help us reach our life's purpose, he argues somewhat unpersuasively. And finally, despite all the talk of the subconscious mind and mental time leaps, Millman arrives at this chestnut: live in the moment.
Customer Reviews
Wonderful Book
I purchase a lot of books on iTune, but this is one of the few that I finished from cover to cover. Thank you for this wonderful book.