The Eloquence of Living

by Vimala Thakar

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0931432618
• ISBN13: 9780931432613
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: New World Library
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Ahh, simplicity...

My son gave me this simple little book for Christmas and I treasure it. Even the term "Eloquence" elevated my life to a new level. Thakar addresses what seems like a small core of values, but they encompass a vast scope of essentials for living a life with courage and compassion. Simple reading, soft approach, vital message.

Envisions and gives steps to make life 'an eloquent Living'

The vision required to transform life into eloquent Living is explained by clarifying some key ideas. This small book with each page like a picture frame with a mat around, contains only a few small sentences (upto 5 or 6) on each page. Freedom, Relatedness, Religious Inquiry, Observation, Inner Order, Awareness, Silence, and Meditation are the key chapter/subject titles. Each topic is very well connected to the succeeding theme, providing a well drawn map for understanding. Each of them could be well expanded into a bulky book with commentary. To that extent, this may be a difficult book for a beginner. But, for some one who has already been exposed to life, and has been contemplating for some time, this book can provide a simple summary. Don't expect to sink all these ideas of this book at once into the mind. This book can be on a coffee table for occasional, repeated browsing. Here are some crisp statements from the book.on Freedom:Page 3 :"Unless we understand the content of our whole being, freedom cannot be.Freedom is not a speculative, romantic game of imagining something which is not.It is simply comprehension of what is."On Relatedness:Page 21:"When you have the humility to be with people in the simplicity of what you are, not pretending to be what you are not, not trying to hide what you are, then communion takes place. You understand the other person more deeply than all knowledge could make possible."On Religious Inquiry:Page 33:"The essence of religion is the personal discovery of the meaning of life, the truth of life."Page 46:"It's only when we are willing to be vulnerable, unprotected by fixed ideas, traditions, and habitual ways, that the adventure of self-discovery, the inward voyage can begin."On Observation:Page 50:"Whenever you use your mind, you have to educate yourself to be there totally, not absentmindedly, half-heartedly, but pouring your whole being into it.To be attentive is to be sensitive.The mind is alert, sensitive, attentive only in the absence of habit.When you go through an event absentmindedly, passively, out of habit, you are not there.The wholeness of your being has missed the opportunity for living.Habit moved, not you.Mechanical repetition creates an illusion of living, but there is neither encounter with life nor growth."Page 58:"We are trying to measure human beings with norms or criteria that our minds have prepared yesterday or the thousands of yesterdays of the whole human race."Page 59:"To meet another human being is to be attentive, open, vulnerable.It requires being with others in the simplicity of what you are, dropping all manmade pretences and disguises.When you meet another in the simplicity of being, observing rather than reacting, understanding and communion will be there."On Inner Order:Page 65:"When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure.The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise.You

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