A profound exploration of what a meaningful life truly is and what we can each do to make our own unique and beautiful. * Offers the ingredients and strategies necessary to turn your life * into a work of art. * Takes contemporary culture head-on, demonstrating the challenges of * living a spiritual, meaningful life in modern times. * An ideal companion for anyone seeking meaning in their lives and * eager to set out to find it.
Within each human soul, meaning flickers as a spark waiting to be ignited. Just as a sculptor starts with raw clay and crafts it into a singular work of beauty, so we are each responsible for taking the material of our own life and shaping it into something unique, beautiful, and meaningful. This process, which Sherwin calls soulcrafting, can make the difference between an empty life and one that has all the energy, completeness, and profundity of a work of art.
Crafting the Soul examines what many of the greatest thinkers of the past have had to say about the meaning of life, then takes contemporary culture head-on, demonstrating how many facets of modern life prevent one from ever creating a spiritual, meaningful existence. It then presents all the ingredients necessary to turn your life into a work of art and offers strategies for achieving this. Infused with the deep spirituality of the author's thirty years of philosophical exploration, Crafting the Soul is the ideal companion for anyone curious about the meaning of life and eager to set out on an intellectual and spiritual adventure to find it.
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Crafting The Soul:
Crafting The Soul: Creating Your Life As A Work of Art is the latest book by prolific author Rabbi Byron L. Sherwin, Ph.D.
Dr. Sherwin is a Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Mysticism and an internationally acclaimed ethicist. He says that "both medical science and psychotherapy are beginning to realize that a spiritual crises often lies at the root of a psychological or physical malady," adding that "people with little meaning in their lives or in their work are primary candidates... more info
Can the soul be crafted- an approach:
Issues spiritual, as opposed to religious, seem to have made a major comeback in the last decade or so. There has been an emerging fascination with Kabbalah both within the Jewish community and beyond. Centres for the study of Kabbalah have emerged around the world and lectures given by masters including Leibl Wolf and Roger Kamenetz are usually filled to capacity.
In the Jewish mystical tradition, there is a concept that each of us has a divine spark within our soul and it is just waiting to be ignited.... more info
