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The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife
by Marianne Williamson
from Hay House

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Inspiring Daydream
  I am familiar with Marianne's popularity as a spiritual teacher and speaker and this is the first of her books that I've read. Here's what I enjoyed. She has an easy flowing writing style, a nice way with words. I sensed the entire book as her personal prayer for a greater embodiment of love by herself and hopefully others. I find this inspiring. However, on the whole, I don't feel that this book lives up to its title. Her contemplation on spiritual maturity seems merely hopeful, and thus shallow. She talks... more info

• Great up until the last two chapters
  This book totally met me where I'm at as my son is a teenager and I'm looking to my life when he has flown the nest and I'm older and grayer. She has a great persepective on growing older and embracing it. Her book really helped me to not be so afraid of growing older as is so prevalent in our society, but to embrace my greatness as I get older. Her last two chapters left me bewildered. She totally moves into a rant about the world and politics and the only way to combat the bad stuff going on in the world... more info

• Ageless Wisdom, True Fulfillment
  Bestselling author, Marianne Williamson, in "The Age of Miracles" is pointing toward a radical and ageless wisdom that can only arise, when we are willing to slow down from all of our thinking and doing to consciously engage the contemplative life.
  Just as we physically mature through the many stages of human development - infancy to old age - we deepen in spiritual maturity. Truthfully, our calendar age and the appearance of the aging form do not play a role in our ability to realize the sense of joy... more info

• Empowering!
  Over the years, Marianne Williamson's books and lectures have helped me to find and focus the central truths of my life. This beautifully written book is a reminder that midlife can be rich with wisdom and confidence. Midlife is a time of doing, creating and becoming on many simultaneous levels. My husband bought the audio version for me, and I resonated with it so strongly, I immediately bought a print copy for my mom.

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