It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice

"Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Bo Lozoff does something about another of our major complaints, the isolation, individualism and crass materialism promoted in modern American culture. He has done this by providing an exemplar - his own life - and setting out twenty-six specific practices that can still our rancour and increase community and happiness. Doing is NOT as easy as reading -- but the book lingered with me, and working with just one or two of the practices has, I believe, helped me to be more resilient and more dependable in stressful time, and has helped me make better choices about where to put my energy and resources.

This book provides the nuts and bolts for a more meaningful life. It has useable ideas for being a better and happier person. I wake up every morning and say, "May I be a simple, humble, kind presence on the earth today." I eat only one portion and it's helping me lose weight. I especially like his ecumenical use of all religions. This book makes sense. I've given copies to friends and family, I read it over and over. It's a wonderful book!

Bo's latest is even clearer and more poignant than his earlier books. In this latest spiritual guide Bo provides insight and valuable complementary exercises to make the reading all that more powerful and effective. What truly amazes me is how Bo can keep writing with such relevance and power and yet never repeat his earlier books (which I also felt excelled in relevance and power...). Rather than read as a novel, I've treated this as a workbook, savoring each point and companion exercise and then moving to the next one.

This is a rare, exceptional book that combines thoughtful, evenhanded scholarship with practical applications. The book does a superb job of highlighting some of the common denominators present in various world religions and translating these beliefs and tenets into sound guidance for people of all faiths. I very much appreciated the author's efforts to locate common ground for all people and to use these points of intersection to teach, to educate and to focus wayward readers on fundamental truths. A good book with excellent intentions--this from a devout, practicing Presbyterian. Buy it today.

This book is a powerful and focused manual for living a more mindful life of service in todays hustle and bustle world. A great strength of the book is its organization which digs deeply first into strengthening our inner practice through a daily spiritual discipline and dissolving our fears. The second half of the book speaks to how we can then take this inner strength and use it to deepen personal relationships with spouses, significant others, children, and friends. What also makes this book so powerful are the "practice" sections at the end of each chapter which give the reader a practical way of incorporating spiritual disciplines and ideas into your life. The author also has an uncanny way of dissecting and blowing apart all of the excuses we make to avoid spiritual practices. The author does all of this however, while still being quite modest and sharing the various struggles that he and his family has had. The motivational clarification that the book contains on page 31 alone is worth the cost of the whole book.