- Paperback: 504 pages
- Publisher: Shambhala Publications; 2 edition (Feb 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1570627428
- ISBN-13: 978-1570627422
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 3 x 22.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 120,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Here is a deeply moving account of a couple's struggle with cancer and their journey to spiritual healing. Grace and Grit is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber and his wife Treya Killam Wilber through Treya's illness, treatment, and, finally, death.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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the best book I have ever read,
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This review is from: Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber (Paperback)
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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A balanced look at alternative medicine,
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This review is from: Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber (Paperback)
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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Moving, Powerful, Filling, Inspiring,
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This review is from: Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber (Paperback)
Simply and literally the most moving and powerful
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.
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