The Beautiful Life: Ten New Commandments: Because Life Could Be Better

by Simon Parke

This book gives you ten new commandments for coping with the stresses, strains and pressures of modern-day living. Looking always with the inner eye, it is a book in search of psychological truth - the truth from which people are made and live. It describes the energies and textures of our life - emotional, mental, visceral, spiritual - and discerns the 'sorryness and grandeur' in all. The ten new commandments offered are ten skilful attitudes in pursuit of the beautiful life. Our past has made us, but does not define us, and we each have a genius for the future through simple attention to familiar things. The book draws on a wide tradition of human experience, and using story, illustration and comment, invites us to be alchemists for our own transformation. It is a handbook for those who know that something is always over - and that something has always begun. It suggests the work of life - the work beneath all other work.

Genres: Spirituality, Nonfiction

191 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Adam Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful little book, a book that somehow speaks to the heart even though it offers much of the similar wisdom that is put out elsewhere. Perhaps it's because it is written in an understated manner, the unaffected stories that permeate through the text, the beautiful framing of the "long journey home to a beautiful life".

It is a book that warrants a read and a reread for the simplicity of its messages that, nonetheless, cut to heart of the matter.