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| View Larger Image | Chop Wood, Carry Water
by Rick Fields
| | List Price: | $18.95 | | Price: | $12.89 | | You Save: | $6.06 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 72890 | | Studio: | Tarcher | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 304 | | Publication Date: | December 01, 1984 | | Publisher: | Tarcher |
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Product Description
Every day of your life can be a spiritual adventure!Make all the ordinary experiences of your life a part of your path to enlightenment. Whether balancing a checkbook, working in an office or factory, raising a family-- Chop Wood, Carry Water shows you how to integrate the events of modern living into a quest for spiritual fulfillment.Based on the classic, inspirational bestseller, this unique program offers advice, insight, information, humor, and encouragement from the spiritual masters of the past and the most innovative thinkers of today. From Lao Tze to Mother Teresa, from Socrates to Margaret Mead, this audio compendium of practical wisdom shows you that the true guide to a more joyous, productive inner journey is ultimately yourself. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 7 reviews)
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Chop Wood, Carry Water 
This book is a wonderful guide to help in all areas of our lives.
January 10, 2007 | |
Good quotes, but what exactly is the point? 
If you want a book that has interesting spiritual quotes, but doesn't take a specific stand on any of them...this is your book; it's really more of a "spiritual quote book" edited by a politically correct quorom of authors. It struck me that it was almost like I was sitting next to a hippie who has deeply studied religions, but thanks to all the pot they've smoked, can't really decipher what the point of the quotes was in the first place, and who lives his life by none of them.
Don't get me wrong, it has a lot of great quotes; however, if you have any inkling at all of what kind of spirituality you'd like to explore, you're better getting a more specific book. This book hits in such a broad way as to make it's chapters somewhat irrelevant in the final analysis. I understand that their goal is to cover what every major philosophical/religious idea is, but it seems kind of silly to have "modern humanist perspectives" next to Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, and Confucianist statements. It's basically a poorly designed text book that was written without analytical analysis.
I guess that a lot of the book strikes me as more of a "nobody's right" approach to spiritualism that is dangerously close to moral relativism. My feeling is that if you want to study what the great teachers, philosophers, and religious icons think, you're better off studying them specifically, as this book tries to please everyone, and likely pleases very few.
December 19, 2006 | |
Eclectic gathering of wisdom to live happier
This book pulls wisdom from many sources to cover topics across all aspects of life. It is a good book to have handy for difficult times or just a bad day.
April 13, 2006 | |
A starter manual 
I thought that this book was written by one person. This book is a compilation of essays, quotes, and articles by various authorities in religion (Buddhist in particular), psychology, and other how to thrive in the modern world experts. I'm not dismissing the book. I think it's a good collection. I was expecting a sharper focus. This is a good primer for someone just beginning to live as a mindful person today.
September 18, 2002 | |
Awesome as ever !
Just under 290 pages this is a classic that has just as much meaning in 2001 as it did the first time I read it 20 years ago. A book I cannot help buying, over and over when copies get lent out and the message keeps getting passed on.
15 Chapters. Beginnings; Learning; Intimate Realtionships; Sex; family; Work; Money; Play; Tuning the Body; Healing; Technology; The Earth; Social Action; Inner Guidance; Perils of the Path. Etc.
The subtitle actually explains better than anything what the book is all about. "A Guide to Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life". The Chop Wood Carry Water comes from a thousand year old Chinese Zen Master who spoke of the spiritual aspect of everyday things.
This reminded me (I am not a Christian) of reading where the wife of Billy Graham, Ruth Graham has a small plaque in her kitchen that says "Godly service done here daily" or something to that effect. This is what this book is all about. AAppreciating the simple joy of things like sex, gathering with community to make the earth healthier and fight injustice etc etc.
The Chop Wood Carry Water book has been helpful so often in reminding me that their is joy and honour in doing the laundry, cleaning, paying bills, bathing, cooking, and doing what many people sadly think is boring everyday needs.
In this day and age where people rush here and there and express a sense of loss, because they feel they need to always be doing something noticable, I think this book would be a great healing tool, in teaching people that doing the "chores" of life, can in fact be a relaxing and growth enhancing activity.
April 05, 2001 | |
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