A warm, highly galvanizing, and proactive memoir about the power of spiritual satisfaction and self-integrity.
A self-made successful businessman shares how he unlocked the true key to inner peace and happiness in this debut book.
A writer, lecturer, and innovative creator of Mind Adventure Inc., a consultancy program for professional and personal growth, White describes his humble beginnings as a child growing up enveloped in the friendly company of his beloved aunt and uncle. Yet he found himself confined to struggle in a poor Massachusetts mill town “scrambling for money.” This lean living motivated him to treat his youth as an atmosphere to grow from, not toward. As an adult, the author developed a talent for making money in business arenas such as real estate, restaurants, and entrepreneurialism. Still, even amid the great wealth he’d amassed by middle age, the perks of a luxury lifestyle and an accomplished professional reputation left him feeling incomplete. “My exterior world reflected material wealth, but my interior world was spiritually bankrupt,” he lamented. At age 50, a crisis of conscience brought White to the threshold of a higher understanding and valuing of peace and joy with a national and international quest for enlightenment. The inspiring life stories in White’s book (many have appeared in the Huffington Post) offer a thoughtful profile of his youth and the guidance gurus and unassuming life teachers he met and learned from. From a mother in a Maasai village in Kenya and a 50-something Boston peanut vendor to the more popular spiritual coaches like Marianne Williamson and Deepak Chopra, they all encouraged the author to embrace a vast assortment of large and small personal transformational experiences. Even a grade school student named Margaret managed to awaken in him “the possibility of starting a new life, as a new person.” Informed by meaningful encounters and leavened with humor, wit, and grace, White’s narrative is powered by the theory that everyone thrives on a beneficial combination of internal wisdom and serendipity. Whether or not readers ascribe to this process is not the point. The message remains a clear and hopeful one, and the life lessons closing each chapter form a friendly reminder of the possibilities of genuine human potential if it is gilded in kindness and compassion.
A warm, highly galvanizing, and proactive memoir about the power of spiritual satisfaction and self-integrity.Pub Date: Jan. 13, 2014
ISBN: 978-0-9802299-6-7
Page Count: 196
Publisher: Mind Adventure Press
Review Posted Online: Feb. 6, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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