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Ethos
This book is a stand-alone version of Book Three of the author’s book Running For My When Impossible is the Only Option, about his quest for a new inner game to support his extreme exercise and diet regime for dealing with primary progressive MS. His new inner game is based on the notion of “personal ethos” and this book is its Credo -- a companion volume to the author’s Inner Game of Being Human series.
From the author’s
“Credo is a loaded word. It sounds religious, and these days religion makes enemies, alienates and polarizes.
“A credo is a form of wisdom literature -- a term just as loaded, and just as fraught with the same likelihood of misinterpretation and misuse.
“Maybe, but this Ethos volume is wisdom of a different kind, entirely suited not only to the inner game of personal ethos but to the ethos of our age. This is not wisdom that settles in, becomes heavy and dogmatic, stirs people to take positions and build defenses and plan attacks. Instead, it invites you to make your own discoveries about how you’re going to live in the impossible newness our age invites. Book Three was never intended to be anything but one grand invitation into the personal and shared wisdom accessible to all of us when we look deep within. Given the nature of personal ethos, it couldn’t be anything else.”
And what is the point of the invitation into personal ethos? Again, from the author’s
“I am therefore excited to offer you Ethos and its invitation to go inside, go deep, and find the essential characteristic spirit of ethos at the center of yourself, where you are most vibrantly alive, most wonderfully unique, and most precisely positioned in the vast web of meaning that connectsf us all.”
To take us there, Ethos guides us into the realms of personal awareness, consciousness, awakening, creativity… even mystery and eternity. It invites us to combine contemplation with action, to create lives as “mystics in motion” -- high performing “life athletes” living from our most essential and powerful selves. Using Zen-like “koans,” it opens the way to a life practice of personal the core expression of that internal spark of life in each of us that we can tap to reach our greatest accomplishments, peace of mind, and zest for life.
Ethos is short and pithy, to be read reflectively. It’s the kind of book you can read a little at a time, dip into and then take some time to reflect before continuing, and is maybe best that way. Throughout, it is inviting, challenging, and provocative, yet written in a welcome, easy, and conversational style.
From the author’s
“Credo is a loaded word. It sounds religious, and these days religion makes enemies, alienates and polarizes.
“A credo is a form of wisdom literature -- a term just as loaded, and just as fraught with the same likelihood of misinterpretation and misuse.
“Maybe, but this Ethos volume is wisdom of a different kind, entirely suited not only to the inner game of personal ethos but to the ethos of our age. This is not wisdom that settles in, becomes heavy and dogmatic, stirs people to take positions and build defenses and plan attacks. Instead, it invites you to make your own discoveries about how you’re going to live in the impossible newness our age invites. Book Three was never intended to be anything but one grand invitation into the personal and shared wisdom accessible to all of us when we look deep within. Given the nature of personal ethos, it couldn’t be anything else.”
And what is the point of the invitation into personal ethos? Again, from the author’s
“I am therefore excited to offer you Ethos and its invitation to go inside, go deep, and find the essential characteristic spirit of ethos at the center of yourself, where you are most vibrantly alive, most wonderfully unique, and most precisely positioned in the vast web of meaning that connectsf us all.”
To take us there, Ethos guides us into the realms of personal awareness, consciousness, awakening, creativity… even mystery and eternity. It invites us to combine contemplation with action, to create lives as “mystics in motion” -- high performing “life athletes” living from our most essential and powerful selves. Using Zen-like “koans,” it opens the way to a life practice of personal the core expression of that internal spark of life in each of us that we can tap to reach our greatest accomplishments, peace of mind, and zest for life.
Ethos is short and pithy, to be read reflectively. It’s the kind of book you can read a little at a time, dip into and then take some time to reflect before continuing, and is maybe best that way. Throughout, it is inviting, challenging, and provocative, yet written in a welcome, easy, and conversational style.
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Published November 28, 2015
About the author
Kevin Rhodes
9 books5 followersKevin Rhodes left a successful long-term law practice to scratch a creative itch and lived to tell about it… barely. Since then, he has been on a mission to bring creativity, meaning, and personal wellbeing to our work and our lives. He has written extensively about his unique journey to wellness, including how he deals with primary progressive MS through an aggressive regime of exercise, diet, and mental conditioning.
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