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 enlarge | Author: Marianne Williamson
Publisher: Hay House
Category: Book
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Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 3903
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 187
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 1401917194
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.66
EAN: 9781401917197
ASIN: 1401917194
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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 More Vulnerable, More Venerable January 17, 2008
39 out of 51 found this review helpful
Marianne Williamson's The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife is really about that most human of dreams--The Second Chance.
All of us want to believe that we can change what we don't like about ourselves, that we can recover from past mistakes and bad breaks. If we're fortunate, we discover that all we need to become someone other than what we are resides inside us, in the beautiful, mysterious spirit. Williamson has been helping people learn this simple truth and act on it for two decades, and never has her message been more tender and personal.
"It's time to re-enchant ourselves," she writes, and as she shares her own efforts, she makes it seem so sweet and tangible for the rest of us! I love her heartbreaking, inspiring anecdotes about her relationship with her daughter (who cannot identify with both parties when we read about a little girl who misses her mommy even when she's home?). Most of all, I love Williamson's vulnerability and her honesty. Even for her, life has created surprises that were not always wonderful. She is sadder in these pages, and more tender, and she is also more desirable and compelling than she has ever been.
As we grow older, it's natural, if we still feel anything at all, to feel more vulnerable. The good news is that this is really progress and not a falling down. We learn as we age to take a little more time, which can be taking greater care with everything. We listen better, and we're not as quick on the judgment draw. We're more compassionate, and more in synch with the universe's life-giving energy. Millions of baby boomers are discovering these truths every day now, and Marianne Williamson has just presented us with our first formal acknowledgment and fabulous Guide. "With every new thought," she writes, "you can work a miracle--changing your script and changing your life." With great joy, let's get to it!
--Robert McDowell, The Poetry Mentor, author of Poetry as Spiritual Practice, coming July 15th from Free Press/Simon & Schuster.
A Thoughtful and Memorable Perspective on Conscious Aging January 14, 2008
80 out of 90 found this review helpful
*****
The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife describes a refreshing way to approach midlife, not viewing midlife through glasses emphasizing decline and loss, but through a framework of endless possibility, wisdom, an embracing of and creation of new meaning, a turning towards life, a realization of the limitlessness of God, a forgiving of the past, a reimagination of relationships, and being one with the world around us.
Although this book is grounded in A Course in Miracles (as are all of Marianne Williamson's books), it is spiritual rather than religious and appropriate for readers of all spiritual and religious backgrounds. The book is not about ACIM per se, but about aging; there indeed are other books that can be read to find out more about ACIM. This work consists of Marianne Williamson's thoughtful musings on how to age well from a practical and spiritual point of view.
The book is peppered throughout with beautiful short prayers written by the author. The chapters cover the author's thoughts on the losses versus the gains of aging, family of origin issues, healing from childhood wounds, coping with regret, emotional baggage and more. The book describes how to fan into flames our passions, dreams, and inner fire that may seem to be ashes and cinders but is buried under "accumulated burdens and disappointments" by the time we hit midlife---and can be revived. How do we re-enchant ourselves with a new vision at this time of our lives?
Here is a quote that sums up the theme of this book: "Midlife today is a second puberty of sorts. The experience, including its length, is being redefined. It is a period distinctly unlike youth, yet distinctly unlike old age. It doesn't feel like a cruise to the end of our lives so much as a cruise, at last, to the meaning of our lives."
If reading the above excites you and sounds intriguing, you'll love the book as I did.
Highly recommended.
*****
 Very superficial rendition of A Course in Miracles January 11, 2008
34 out of 84 found this review helpful
Marianne Williamson gives us, for the third time (if you count her other two books about A Course in Miracles, A Return to Love and The Gift of Change) a very superficial and watered down version of the Course. Marianne interprets the Course as if it were a New Age teaching in the style of Eckhart Tolle or Wayne Dyer. But it is not that at all. It's an original masterpiece by Jesus that needs to be met on its level, not brought down to the level of pop spirituality. In order to really get what this Course is saying one should read the books of a great teacher and scholar like Dr. Kenneth Wapnick, or for a profound and mind-blowing rendition in the vernacular, the books of Gary Renard. Marianne does not do justice to the Course. This is not a personal put down. I'm sure she sincerely believes that she does. She just doesn't.
Rejecting the "Death"-cart! January 10, 2008
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
Is it really possible for one person to continue to put out such significantly authentic material over and over again? Well, Marianne has indeed done it again with this new book. Inviting us to "see" beyond the veils constructed by generations given over to habit and acquiesence, she opens the door to a path in the mind which provides for green to grow where we are sometimes otherwise resigned to see only the path's end. Doors open to the richness of life itself, like ripened fruit ready to eat, created by the wisdom and balance of a life thus far gifted.
I cheerfully embrace the thought of my life in the "eternal now". Thank you Marianne for reminding us of what we have not yet lost while training our sights on what is always present within. To quote Monty Python's "In Search of the Holy Grail"...."I'm not dead yet!...I'd like to go for a walk now!...I'm feeling H A P P Y!"
Magnificent Inspiration from Marianne January 10, 2008
26 out of 30 found this review helpful
Can I give this book more than 5 stars? Well I DO!
Marianne's extraordinary understanding of spiritual topics is over the top in her new book, The Age of Miracles:Embracing the New Midlife. She changes our perceptions about midlife. I am so grateful because every day I look at my life in a totally thankful way. I never thought that I could get to the place where I felt that MY age is the best. I am so looking forward to the years ahead. Marianne is such a blessing to all ages. I had tears streaming down my face throughout the whole introduction to the book. The joy that I feel in my heart from Marianne's inspiration is so big that my heart hurts. I will be Loving this book throughout my life.
Bravo Marianne! Love and Blessings, Mary Albertson
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