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The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose (Millman, Dan) By Dan Millman ( HJ Kramer )
Release Date: 1995-02-08
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Product Description
Dan Millman presents an entirely new way of understanding life and the forces that shape it. The Life-Purpose System, a modern method of personal growth based on ancient wisdom, had helped thousands of people find new meaning, purpose, and direction in their lives. The Life You Were Born to Live features the thirty-seven paths of life, how to determine your life path and the life paths of others, core issues, inborn talents, and special needs of each path, including health, money, and sexuality, guidelines for finding a career consistent with your innate drives and abilities, the hidden dynamics of your relationships, how to live in harmony with the cycles of life. The Life-Purpose System explores key spiritual lawsuniversal principles specific to each life paththat help you clarify the past, understand the present, and shape the future. It can generate a quantum leap in self-understanding and may even change the course of your life.
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 Hokey
I still respect Millman, but the Pythagorean number system is basically a horoscope in a different form. He says it doesn't know why it works but it does... I say it works for the same reason horoscopes work: they rely on incredibly broad personality traits that everyone has to a certain degree and where anyone can see themselves in the personal descriptions it provides.
The main audience for this book is simply anyone who's looking for direction in their life, and this method is as good as any other New Age way to decide what direction to pursue with yourself. I don't think it is any more specifically relevant or accurate to personality than any other gobbledeygook way of figuring out what to do with yourself.
If you really need something like this as far as direction, then hire a career counselor. If you need personal encouragement and belief in something out of your control to help you grow personally, then find a church, like everyone else. You'll get more out of it.
For an enjoyably entertaining read, I WOULD recommend The Journeys of Socrates, by Millman.
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 Incredibly Accurate ( poopsy5 )
The numbers that he helps you figure out, are very accurate. It will floor you. A very helpful book. It's esoteric knowledge that is illuminating, and practical. If you're been floundering and directionless, this tells you the reasons why and how to get out of it.
I wish the book had a nice cover and a better title. I only bought it because I heard Dan Millman talk about this book on Kelly Howell's podcast.
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Suprisingly accurate
When I went to the bookstore and happened upon this book, by the author of one of my favorite books, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, I read the back flap and was totally dismayed. I tend to be quite the skeptic when it comes to pseudo-mathematics. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I figured out my birth number and flipped to the sections for me.
I was blown away as to how accurately the main hurdles I face in life were pointed out. I have a hard time imagining that everyone will find their life's largest problems in one single book, but for me this was spot on. Good advice and warnings were given. I really got a lot out of what was written. For comparison, I briefly read through some other chapters that were not related to my birth number, and they did not resonate at all.
From Way of the Peaceful Warrior I got Millman's concept of what life was meant to be about. This book is not about the meaning of life, but rather the specifics of obstacles on the path to discovering it. And for me, it was great to see that the hurdles I face due to my personality are not all self-imposed, but are part of a bigger picture; it somehow makes them easier to bear.
Thanks, Dan Millman, for another quality introspective book.
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Whoa... ( erillabelle )
Very interesting and captivating. This was so on the mark, and I like that it's not just the typical numerology based sytem. Much more accurate. I actually choked up reading my specific life path description, there were things in there I'm barely aware of but I know are true. Now all my friends are borrowing it!!
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Makes Sense
This book is awesome!! Not only do my numbers apply to my personality, but the numbers of my friends and family apply to theirs as well. Once again...thanks Dan!!
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