I read this bestseller quite some time back, after Ali informed me that it’s audiobook has been quite a hit on iTunes. Although not a spiritual classic and not a book that I would strongly recommend, a part of me is glad that I have completed it. Below are a sprinkling of quotes from the book that I placed in my Intention Journal. I felt like sharing them with you.
“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live”
“Well the truth is if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time-then you might not be as ambitious as you are.”
“The things you spend so much time on-all this work you do-might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spititual things.”
Spiritual things?
“You hate that word, don’t you? ‘Spiritual.’ You think it’s touchy-feely stuff.”
“Mitch,” he said, laughing along, “even I don’t know what ‘spiritual development’ really means. But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”
One of my favorites too! Something that we can relate to as muslims.. Insha Allah, will share my review of this book soon.