- Hardcover: 422 pages
- Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc (12 Mar 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0877736359
- ISBN-13: 978-0877736356
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.7 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,940,571 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A personal account of a couple's struggle with cancer and death and their journey to spiritual healing.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Although I am a voracious reader, usually at least one book a day, I was so overwhelmed by this book that I did not read another for over two months. It works on every level, as a love story, as a tutorial in philosophy and religion, as a guide through the maze of spiritual offerings in today's world and as a primer for how to be helpful to people with terminal illnesses. It is a great introduction to Ken Wilber's works, and gives the reader a look at his heart as well as his mind. Treya's life and death are my inspiration for the way I want to live, and when the time comes, the way I want to die. Reading this book was the turning point of my life, and I am grateful to Ken Wilber for having the courage to bear his and Treya's souls for his readers' benefit.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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As a cancer survivor, I liked the book's wise and balanced view of conventional and alternative medical approaches. I'm tired of books that blithely advise treating a life-threatening illness like with wheatgrass juice and happy thoughts. Those treatments sound a lot more appealing than chemotherapy, granted, but the fact is that few of them are backed by anything but anecdoctal evidence. It requires a level of courage and independent thinking to choose "the best of both worlds" and that is exactly what Ken and Treya Wilber managed to do. This book wanders a bit -- it's really a blend of the couple's personal story as well as the author's spiritual philosophy as it was informed by their experience. But I found it compassionate and heartening, even despite the sad outcome.
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Simply and literally the most moving and powerful
stack of paper and ink that has passed through my hands. A complete meal.
stack of paper and ink that has passed through my hands. A complete meal.
If you're familiar with and interested in Wilber's thinking (as I was) but have yet to read this title, it would be especially tragic to miss the additional dimensions provided here.
-- Scott
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'Grace and Grit' is the single most moving book I've ever read. If you read through all the other comments, they cover exactly what I felt, but I still had to add my own opinion. Read more
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ich weine und lache und lebe
Das berührendste, das bewegendste, das belebenste Buch, das ich je gelesen habe. Ich fühle Wunsch nach Leben und meine Sorgen verabschieden sich lächelnd von mir,... Read more
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Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
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EVERY EMOTION...
It might not be pretty, but Ken Wilber does a good job of relaying all the emotions he went through as the "support person" for his wife, Treya, during her battle with... Read more
Published on 5 Aug 1998
It is really, really good.
I read this book some time back, and I still love it. This book shows real life of real people in a way that can be shared by many. It's no fiction, and it's very well written. Read more
Published on 3 July 1998
Practicing the wound of love . . .
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vulnerable, more approachable by more people. Read more
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