Author:Caroline Myss
The author of the international bestsellers Anatomy of the Spirit and Why People Don't Heal and How they Can presents an exciting, highly original programme in this fascinating book. As a medical intuitive, Myss has found that people generally don't understand their purpose in life, which has led to a spiritual malaise of epidemic proportions. This metaphysical disease in turn leads to depression, anxiety, fatigue and eventually, physical illness.
But our purpose - our individual Sacred Contract - is often difficult to comprehend. Caroline Myss has developed an enjoyable and ingenious process for deciphering your own Contract that builds on the works of Jung, Plato and contemporary thinkers. With her signature motivational style, Myss explains how you can identify your own spiritual energies, or archetypes, and use them to help you find out what you are here on earth to learn and whom you are meant to meet. In coming to know your archetypal companions, you will also begin to see how to live your life in ways that make the best use of your personal power and lead you to fulfil your greatest - in fact, your divine - potential.
Caroline Myss has weaved her magic spell once more
—— MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, author of A Return to LoveCaroline has done it again. With her brilliant writing style she is forging ahead to a new frontier of spirituality
—— SYLVIA BROWNE, author of The Other Side and BackA searingly honest, viscerally vivid, darkly comic self-examination of the connections between writing personality and health. Once I started reading it, I didn't want to stop
—— David Lodge , GuardianThis is a crazy, wince-inducing, uplifting book... Parks has done a service to the many people who would never look at a cheesy self-help book or try anything with a whiff of spirituality about it
—— Financial TimesA movingly honest book that is about a great deal more than breathing and meditation
—— Susan Hill , The LadyFunny, painful and quietly profound book
—— Doug Johnstone , ScotsmanParks writes wonderfully well about his body as he is reluctantly reconciled to its existence alongside his mind... All the more moving for avoiding new age fakery. Anyone plagued by chronic aches and pains will find much to cheer them in this most unusual and engaging book
—— Jane Housham , ExpressParks is an excellent writer, capable of writing wittily and with great beauty about the near indefinable
—— Seven, Sunday TelegraphBeautifully written and painfully honest...a fascinating, perceptive and rewarding read
—— The Big Issue[Parks] writes with forensic precision about all he experiences, physically and mentally... Even those free of illness will find Parks's journey gives us much to ponder about the effects of modern living
—— Ben Felsenburg , MetroTeach Us to Sit Still is a small triumph of narrative artistry, luxuriantly written and full of bone-dry humour. I'd recommend it to any man over 45 who frets incessantly about his health - which is to say, any man over 45
—— Marcus Berkmann , SpectatorAnam Cara is a radiant source of wisdom, a link between the human and the divine. This work is a blessed, rare gem.
—— Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Be Careful What You Pray For, Prayer Is Good Medicine, and Healing WordsJohn O'Donohue is an unassuming man with a grand sense of humor. . . charming.
—— Joy Redfield Kwapien, author of The Celestine JournalJohn brightens the way for you, if you have the courage to go there--he was obviously sent here with the light.
—— Davy Spillane, Grammy Award-winning musician/composer at North Atlantic Music Studios (Ireland) and Producer of Anam Cara AudiobookJohn O'Donohue's book of Celtic wisdom comes at you like a blast of fresh wind rushing above the din of modern noise and cynical contemporary conversations, revitalising the spirit to effectively face this turbulent world. Indeed we need John's wildly original and provocative voice more than ever.
—— Gail Straub, Co-Founder--Empowerment Institute, Author of The Rhythm of CompassionFrom the very first sentence, Anam Cara takes us on an exhilarating journey through the human soul and its many wondrous and mysterious labyrinths, and John O'Donohue is the perfect guide to light the way--a radiant soul full of deep wisdom, true compassion, and boundless joy.
—— Andrew Carroll, New York Times bestselling author and co-founder, with Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky, of the American Poetry & Literacy ProjectAnam Cara has accompanied me on my spiritual journey from its very inception. I have returned to this book often, for solace, wisdom and --most of all--to be reminded that I am not alone in what I desire for myself and for our world. John O'Donohue has been my "soul friend" for years, and his brave revelations of his mind and heart have changed my life. Get ready for a life-altering journey.
—— Edward L. Beck, Roman Catholic Priest, CNN Faith and Religion CommentatorIn the age of social media in which we add and discard friends with the tap of a screen, we need more than ever John O'Donohue's vital words of wisdom on how the right relationships can lift a life and feed the soul. This book is about deep love, belonging, and honoring nourishing ties that crush small-minded concepts of what friendship can be. A must read for all on the spiritual journey.
—— Sophfronia Scott, author of The Seeker and the Monk and Love's Long LineJohn blew away the dust of many years of spiritual disillusionment and blessed the world with an ancient message infused with beauty, love and divine truths. This was a man formed from the wildness of clay and rock of the West coast of County Clare. It was a privilege to know John and to witness him enliven weary souls in search of the divine spark. He was and continues to be an Anam Cara (soul friend) to those of us blessed to have known him and for all who continue to walk the path through his inspired writings.
—— Áine Minogue, Irish Musician