The Way of the Small: Why Less Is More

By Michael Gellert

Book Overview

A practical and spiritual guide to making everyday living sacred. The Way of the Small: Why Less is Truly More explores the principals of a sound, wholesome exisistence for both the individual and society. Addressing the search for finding true happiness, meaning and success, The Way of the Small gives us new perspectives based on old wisdom on what makes for a truly lived life. A practical and spiritual guide to fulfillment, it illustrates that happiness is found in the small-in ways to celebrate the precious small gifts of ordinary life and experiencing the sacred in all aspects of life. We are reminded that Less Is More, Simpler Is Better. The Way of the Small teaches ways to embrace even life's more difficult passages such as aging, failure, illness, or the loss of a loved one, making even our pain a path to the sacred that helps us find meaning in life as it happens. * Offers 22 key principles to activate the way of the small--simplify and discover true happiness. * Especially relevant for mid-lifers, helping the process of sifting through life experience and finding what is of true essence, personally, spiritually and worldly. * Relates the how smallness is part of established major religions and spiritual teachings. * A practical and spiritual guide to help us navigate a way of living in our complex times that leads to a happier and more meaningful and balanced life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892541296
• ISBN13: 9780892541294
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Nicolas-Hays
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

The Importance of Being Little

The Way of the Small: Why Less Is More Disraeli noted that "life is too short to be little". But I believe he was speaking in the context that we should be accomplishing worthwhile things with our lives. Michael Gellert suggests that we can become more of who we really are by becoming little in a different way,by reducing ego and manufactured self-importance, being humble and recognizing that others have strengths superior to ours. That liberates us to focus on what we can do better. A welcome book in an era when life is often defined as being "all about me" and material possessions. Less can be more in the end.

Satisfying, challenging, and a contribution.

I read this book slowly and thoughtfully. Addressing the contemporary challenges of our fast-paced consumerist society and hunger for meaning, Jungian Analyst Michael Gellert has put together a work that is inspiring and comprhensive. There are not easy answers here; this is not a book of pop psychology or easy religion. Rather, a thoughtful challenge to come back to ourselves, connect to what is real in the moment, and develop a way of living that is sustaining spiritually-regardless of your faith. The author's access to the texts and stories from all of the world's sacred traditions is truly impressive. However, it is this book's heart that is its central feature. I'm sure that I will return to it often.

The Way of the Small: Why Less is More By Michael Gellert

What a treat to read The Way of The Small by Michael Gellert. It is inspirational, and filled with wise stories that are immediately useful in daily life. It is superbly written, a real page turner and runs the gamit from tears to laughter in its pages. A book to own and to give as gifts to friends, colleagues and neighbors. It is so readable and enjoyable you will congratulate yourself for having discovered it, as I have.