A warm, inspiring and, above all, practical book

It's encouraging to find Westerners who've sufficiently assimilated the traditions of the East to be able to share them with others as Jack is doing. May such efforts further the peace of all beings.

This important guidebook shows in detail and with great humour and insight the way to practise the Buddha's universal teachings here in the West. Jack Kornfield is a wonderful storyteller and a great teacher.

Jack Kornfield is a remarkable and thoughtful teacher.

At the end of this entertaining (for the reader) spiritual journey Jacobs may not be a religious man but he is a better person

Even if Jacobs couldn't write for toffee, his account was almost bound to be gripping and hilarious. Luckily, it's both

As a man incapable of developing any facial hair aside from a really amazingly cruddy moustache, I would have bought this book for the astonishing big beard chronicle alone. That The Year of Living Biblically grows, beardlike, into a long, hilarious, tangled, and ultimately moving story of spiritual growth is all the more astonishing. But why should I continue to be surprised at what springs from A. J.'s head? He is a brilliantly hilarious writer who truly lives up to that oft-misused adverb/adjective combination and then some. Plus: He is going to Heaven. So how can you not afford to tithe your salary to his cause and buy this book?

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