I first posted The Last Lecture here under the Inspirational Video Category on February 24 (here is the link for the video http://beautifulsummermorning.com/2008/02/24/randy-pausch-sunday-video/ ). The video has now been viewed by over six million people, and now Randy Pausch’s book remains high on the Amazon best sellers list. This can be an uncomfortable video to watch and it is the longest video I’ve posted. However I highly recommend you view this amazing video.
Other Links to Randy Pausch:
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
Top Five Inspirational Books for Weekending May 3 2008
1. The Last Lecture
2. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
3. 21 Distinctions of Wealth: Attract the Abundance You Deserve
4. HARMONIC WEALTH: THE SECRET OF ATTRACTING THE LIFE YOU WANT
5. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
There you have it for this week. We have two new best sellers both focused on the Law of Attraction. As always, if you are interested in any of these books please follow my link to Amazon where I get a small commission if you purchase. Amazon has the best prices around, and ship quickly.
Book Review
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson
Death is an uncomfortable subject in our society. “Tuesdays with Morrie”, deals with a young man’s struggle to come to terms with the death of his beloved professor, while the professor explores the country of his own death from Lou Gehrig’s disease.
The book opens with these beautiful simple lines:
The last class of my Old Professor’s life took place once a week in house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves. The class met on Tuesdays. It began after breakfast. The subject was The Meaning of Life. It was taught from experience.
Over the course of fourteen Tuesdays Mitch Albom and Morrie discuss a wide range of topics; the World, Feeling Sorry for Yourself, Regrets, Death, Family, Emotions, Fear of Aging, Money, Love, Marriage, Our Culture, Forgiveness, The Perfect Day, Saying Good Bye.
While Morrie’s death becomes more immanent with each passing Tuesday, their relationship becomes more and more intimate, pushing the author to examine his own attitudes toward death.
Morrie faces his death with determination to “live” his death as fully as he can. He decided in the early stages of his illness that he would not “wither and die”. He would not be ashamed of dying. He decided to make death his final project, his final piece of research. As Mitch Albom puts it so beautifully, “Morrie would walk the final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.
Some of Morrie’s wisdom:
“Love is the only rational act.”
“Learn how to die and your learn how to live.”
“Death ends a life not a relationship.”
This book is not a about dressing up death to make it accessible , but rather a gritty, frank look at the realities of dying and the lessons it teaches us about ourselves and about life.
In the end Morrie, through his courage and bravery, rises above the ravishes of Lou Gehrig’s disease, to inspire us to view death, and our own certain death, in a more open and loving way.
The professor’s class teaches us all valuable lessons about life of which death is an important part.
Highly Recommended
Nick Grimshawe
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