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 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Lesser
Publisher: Villard
Category: Book
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 5579
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0375759913
Dewey Decimal Number: 291
EAN: 9780375759918
ASIN: 0375759913
Publication Date: June 14, 2005
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Beautifully-Written Work September 1, 2007
This book was recommended to me by an acquaintance. While it has a decidedly Buddhist tilt to me, as a Buddhist, it is filled with bittersweet, tender stories of pain, emergence from struggle or devastation, and rebirth with wings aloft (as in the mythical story of the phoenix which is prominently featured in the book). The book reads easily and captivates you page after page, leading you onwards and upwards in the author's marvelous and insightful journey through darkness into light. Death, illness, divorce, almost every dimension of the human experience is covered with the author's deft brushstroke, generating that occasional feeling when reading a wonderful book of having read something enlightening and meaningful.
What a teacher August 9, 2007
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Very simply, Elizabeth Lesser is an amazing teacher and story teller. Some day I will take one of her workshops in person.
Why haven't I seen this on the best sellers list in stores?? August 22, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
"Adversity is your greatest asset" but only if you face it with an open heart.
This book tops any other self-help/motivational book I have ever read. Ms. Lesser hits the nail on the head with this one. Every human being has a journey to make, a road to finding their true inner self and that road is laiden with obstacles and occasional misfortune. This is a fact of nature that none of us can escape, or worse yet try to escape. If you are going through your trial period in life, read this book, it is like a guide for the soul to find that hallowed ground of inner peace.
How enlightening August 12, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I purchased this book after searching on the Omega Institue site for retreats. This author is right on the mark. I've read numerous books on self-improvement, but I find Ms Lesser has really hit a nerve. She presents her information in a way that the reader is taken in and can relate well to her journey. For me, this book came into my life at just the perfect time. Understanding her 'Phoenix Process' helped explain so much I've been challenged with in my life.
I recommend this book to the person who is looking to understand the challenges of life and how important it is to grow and learn through difficult journeys.
"Bittersweet and Strange--Finding You Can Change" June 6, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Not a self-help book--thank the Lord! Rather, "Broken Open" is a book to help the soul of the self. "Broken Open" understands profoundly that the nature of life is change and constant transition. Elizabeth Lesser's theme is a call to make a choice: How will we relate to life's constant climbs and dives?
The book is divided into 6 sections: I.The Call of the Soul; II. The Phoenix Process; III. The Shaman Lover; IV. Children; V. Birth and Death; VI. River of Change.
I love her quotations at the chapter headings and use of poetry as in her chapter on "Crooked Hearts" when she quotes W. H. Auden's "As I Walked Out One Evening." She comments: "A heart made crooked through loss and change is a heart that can love the world and its less than perfect people."
"Broken Open" is a book that can be read first quickly, for the joy or it, and then more slowly later, for pondering and soaking in. I found her "Meditation for Practicing Dying" (p. 233) fit perfectly into a Unitarian Service I led on "Memento Mori: Dying and Living, Moment by Moment" and one I'll benefit from using in my daily practice.
"Broken Open" is a good friend and mentor for all us sliding through our changes. As the verse she quotes from "Beauty and the Beast" sings--it is "bittersweet and strange/finding you can change."
--Janet Grace Riehl, author of Sightlines: A Poet's Diary
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