Product Description

The bestselling inspirational guide we can use to help us lead more fulfilling, harmonious, joyful lives is now available on CD. Sarah Ban Breathnach's classic, with over 120,000 copies in print, encourages you to live the 'Real Life' for which you were created. To live a truly authentic life, people must excavate their talents from layers of denial, disbelief and the delay of their dreams. In SIMPLE ABUNDANCE: Living By Your Own Lights adapted from her NYT #1 bestseller, Sarah leads the listener on a journey of self and spirit illuminated by six simple principles: Gratitude, Simplicity, Order, Harmony, Beauty and Joy. By embracing the gentle lessons in SIMPLE ABUNDANCE: LIVING BY YOUR OWN LIGHTS, everyone can discover how daily life can be an expression of authentic self.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #177461 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-01
• Formats: Abridged, Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 3
• Binding: Audio CD

Features

• ISBN13: 9781586214074
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From AudioFile
The print version of this book included meditations for each day of the year. In adapting it for audio, Sarah Ban Breathnach reorganizes those meditations into six sections, all of which relate to simplifying one's life and clarifying one's priorities. She reads them over a background of the music she listened to while writing the book. This works well, as does her calm, caring delivery. When she tells a story from her own experience, Breathnach is completely convincing, and one can sense that her compassion is based upon empathy. However, many of the book's examples are specific to women, a choice that may make the work less appealing to male listeners. G.T.B. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Customer Reviews

Makes You Think
In our stressful lives, Sarah Breathnach's calm voice outlines a path to sanity. She advocates nurturing our spirits, our relationships and creating serene spaces in our lives.
I want to play this over and over, so it soaks into my consciousness. I want to share this message with all the frazzled women I know. She blends literature and a variety of religions without being preachy. Quotes from Star Wars, Bhudda, Irish proverbs and Shaker writings are sprinkled throughout serving to launch her essays.
Over all, it is about tuning into ourselves and paying attention to our basic needs (no, not material possessions, though she does not advocate a spartan lifestyle).
For women who feel there is no time to tend to their inner needs and who find the daily demands at times overwhelming, I wholeheartedly recommend this.

A must for all women over 40!
I found this book quite by accident at a Barnes and Noble one day. After reading it I went back and bought one for all my close friends and sisters. Sarah Breathnach has defined in this book what is really important in life and helps you get in touch with these things. It's too bad we don't figure most of this out until later in life. Easy reading and a "feel good" book for someone who wants to enjoy life to the fullest.

De-stressing starts here
This is a soothing comforting book for women of all ages. I have listened to it on tape, a couple of years later read the book, and am reading it again in 2009. Creating a "gratitude book" as she recommends in this book is one of the most positive things I have ever done for myself.

She recommends several things to do that I could not possibly fit into my schedule but I feel that if I take her words to heart and do the exercises that are important to me then that is enough. And that is what I think she wants women to take from her book.