Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul

by Arianna Huffington

Book Overview

This impassioned piece is a call for all of us to consider a life of service--a renewed respect for responsibility, forgiveness, gratitude, and compassion--to ourselves and to one another.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743261631
• ISBN13: 9780743261630
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

For Modern Spiritual Seekers

If you're a person who believes, values, or longs for the spiritual, and you want a modern "guidebook" of sorts, to help navigate the world in a soulful yet open-minded way, this just may be a great book for you. I (being one of those people) was thoroughly delighted by her wisdom, and found it to be a very mature and intelligent pondering on the "better angels of our nature." Huffington breaks down human motives into four basic instincts: 1) survival 2) power 3) sex, 4) "the call of the soul." The book is based on the philosophy that the path to true enlightenment and a happy, meaningful existence is to let all four work in harmony, with the fourth "taking the wheel," so to speak, keeping the first three in check when they get out of control. More a spiritual companion than a subscription to one religion (she draws on a variety, eastern and western), it's enlightening for the spiritual seeker, without insulting the intelligence of the modern mind (though if you're strictly atheist, I don't think you'll like it very much).