Quest: Discovering Your Human Potential

by Thomas Moore, Bernie S. Siegel, Stephen R. Covey

Experts in the field of personal development--including Deepak Chopra, Stephen R. Covey, Thomas Moore, Bernie Siefel, David Whyte, and Marianne Williamson--explain how listeners can look inside... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Audio Cassette
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671574833
• ISBN13: 9780671574833
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Will leave you wanting to see the PBS special!

Apparently, there was once a PBS-special program called QUEST: DISCOVERING YOUR HUMAN POTENTIL . . . I unfortunately never caught it when it was on the air, but was lucky enough to be able to track down a cassette with the same title. Edited by Deepak Chopra, it featured Steven Covey, Thomas Moore, Bernie Siegel, David Whyte, and Marianne Williamson, along with Chopra . . . they all spoke about the mind-body connection and shared their ideas on how to harness your inner power. With speakers this fine, I came away with many useful ideas . . . my only disappointment was that the program did not label the speakers either before or after they had something to say. Yet I believe I was able to identify many of the speakers . . . in addition, I gleaned these tidbits: [Siegel] If you're stuck, then change your attitude toward life. If you want to be happy, choose happiness. [Siegel] Most people say, "My day will come." When they realize they have a limited number of days, that's when they get into action. [Williamson] Life isn't about so much about making ourselves better, as it is about relinquishing all the illusions and the blocks to greatness that are bred into us in the world. [Williamson] Buckminster Fuller said, "Geniuses are just people who had good mothers." [Siegel] When you do allow love into your life, you have a longer, healthier life. You are rewarded by the fact. For example, when you save a bird, you don't expect a "thank you" in return. [Siegel, quoting advice he got from Ashley Montagu] To be more loving, act as if you're more loving.

fascinating contrast

The Quest audio cassettes are a fine compliment to books by the guest speakers. In some cases the cassettes provide nuances, insights, and clarification not possible in the printed text form. Stephen Covey for example has a deep raspy almost mischievous laugh when he discusses inauthenticity weakening relationships of trust. His sense of humor isn't readily apparent in The Seven Steps... bestseller, but here it is on this compilation. And Thomas Moore's few comments on narcisism are wonderfully refined and to the point, so much so that he does a better job conveying this somewhat difficult concept in speaking than in printed form i.e. "Care of the Soul" where there isn't the same impact. A few of the speakers are too New Agey and fluffy for my tastes but Moore and Covey give the nearly one hundred minutes of listening time great depth and texture.

A masterful tape---you must own all three in the series

Taken from a PBS series this is the first of three tapes to come from that effort. It is simple the best compilation of thought provking and stimulating ideas on tape that I have found. I am a counselor who works with adolescents and I am always looking for some way to inspire, motivate, or encourage young adults to begin the process of self knowledge and self awarness and to see beyond themselves into the world they are about to enter as adults. So many tapes are too simplistic or too complicated but this series seem to intrigue these individuals as no other tape I have used has been able to do. It is a series that anyone from early adolescents to geriatrics will find extremely valuable and thought provoking. No schmoltzy solutions, no formulaic set answers to life--just wonderful stimulating ways to encouarage the listener to examine who they are, what they feel and where they want to go. You will listen to this series over and over and will hear something new each and every time.

Spiritual, real-world masterpiece

This piece is so heavy and so thought provoking that you have to absorb it slowly... just great. It takes you on a spiritual journey into fundamental questions about life and spirituality. But what really makes this compilation of ideas so good is that it offers you real answers, real solutions to your problems and human weaknesses that you can use. Listening to this tape is spiritual therapy. A classic, like nothing you've experienced before.

Excellent! A thought-provoking guide to living better.

A "Whitman's sampler" from today's leading thinkers. By far the best self-help tape I've ever heard. What sets it apart is that it's full of undeniable truths. While other self-help tapes/gurus spend time trying to convince you that THEY have seen the master plan, this tape just dishes it out for you. Superb