Withdrawing to AdvanceNovember 5, 2003 Girl meets boy. Marries him. Learns, one week later, that she has breast cancer. Battles bravely. Dies.
Uh-huh. Doesn't sound like my kind of book. But take it from me, Grace and Grit - Ken Wilber's true account of his six-year marriage to Treya - is not morbid. Far from it. It's uplifting and vitalizing, one of my all-time favorites. Because Treya was a supreme explorer, I often recommend it to clients wanting to know how to bring more meaning into their lives (www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570627428).
Treya had always been a high achiever, from her school days onwards. Though she had many professional successes to her name, none seemed enough. She longed to find what she called her "daemon": her higher self, the god within, her inner deity or guiding spirit. Her illness added urgency to this quest. In time she discerned that this very urgency was itself a barrier. As she put it, "Sometimes I think I just have to stop chasing my daemon long enough to let some space in my life for it to begin to show itself and grow. I want a full-blown plant right away and have been too impatient to nourish the small shoots enough to see which one I choose or chooses me." |