Richard Smoley
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Often, life can seem to be a serious business. We could also look at it is as a game, or a series of games. They include
• Survival
• Love
• Power
• Pleasure
• Courage
• Creativity
The culmination is the Master Game, which one plays to gain not things or esteem, but knowledge, and to surpass one's limits as a human.
Everyone plays these games, whether they want to or not. Mastering them makes the difference between a rich and successful...
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Here is the greatest "deal" you will ever find: This concise, deeply practical guide shows how to forgive anyone who has ever hurt you and to receive a payback of enormous personal satisfaction and inner peace. "What I am offering you in this book is the best deal you have ever gotten in your life, or ever will. Even though I know nothing about you, I'm willing to make this claim with complete certainty." With elegance and absolute persuasiveness...
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The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst today for finding the hidden truths of Christianity-truths that may have been lost or buried by institutional religion over the last two millennia.
In Forbidden Faith, Richard Smoley narrates a popular history of one such truth, the ancient esoteric religion of gnosticism, which flourished between the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Life can seem to be a serious business. We could also look at it as a game-or a series of games. They include survival, love, power, pleasure, courage, creativity, and the Master Game!
In this insightful book, Richard Smoley gives a lively but pro¬found account of these games. He talks about how we play them, the mistakes we make, and how we can play them best.
The culmination is the Master Game. Richard explores prac¬tices from the great spiritual...