Choices
Harper San Francisco,
2002 (Hardback)
2003 (Paperback)
This book is about
exactly what its title says – choices.
Each of this thought-provoking book’s eight
sections introduces a concept to consider when making choices,
such as cause and effect, service, the Golden Rule, prayer
and meditation, surrender, and hard calls. These concepts
are tied into a trip Beattie took to China and Tibet, where
she climbed the holy mountains. Each mountain experience serves
as a metaphor for one choice-making value.
After each section is introduced, Beattie
then tells a series of short stories showing how people have
faced, and made, a choice. Sometimes the choices are small
choices that have profound consequences in their lives. Other
choices are larger, tougher, but equally far-reaching.
When the reader reaches the end of the book,
he or she realizes that all the stories have woven together
to tell one large story.
“It’s so easy to start functioning on automatic
pilot and forget how many choices we’re unconsciously making
each day, choices that directly affect the course of our lives,”
Beattie says. “This book is a wake-up call.”
“It’s a book about karma (cause and effect).
It’s a layman’s guide to making choices. It’s a story about
how everything happens for a reason even when we don’t know
what that reason is,” Beattie explains. “But most of all it’s
a story about what many say is the greatest gift God gave
to humankind – free will.”
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