- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: WaterBrook Press (Nov 18 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1578568463
- ISBN-13: 978-1578568468
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 286 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #173,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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How do we unriddle the mystery of life and make the most of it? What does it mean to find ourselves guests on a tiny, spinning blue ball in a vast universe? Is our sense of individual uniqueness backed by a guarantee, or are we only dust in the wind?… Long Journey Home is written for those who are asking enduring questions like these.–Os Guinness
From the Hardcover edition.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Have you woken up to the journey of life? Have you reached a point where you long for “something more”? Have the things you have striven to achieve turned out to be far less than enough? Do you desire to unriddle life’s mystery and pursue a life rich with significance?
Long Journey Home is a seeker’s road map to the quest for meaning. Rich in stories and profoundly personal as well as practical, it explores the great philosophies of life and charts the road toward meaning taken by countless thoughtful seekers over the centuries. Written for those who care and those who are open, “it assumes no faith in the reader, only the recognition that the humanness of life as a journey is something we should all care about enough to seek to make sense of it and to make up our minds for ourselves.”
From the Hardcover edition.
Long Journey Home is a seeker’s road map to the quest for meaning. Rich in stories and profoundly personal as well as practical, it explores the great philosophies of life and charts the road toward meaning taken by countless thoughtful seekers over the centuries. Written for those who care and those who are open, “it assumes no faith in the reader, only the recognition that the humanness of life as a journey is something we should all care about enough to seek to make sense of it and to make up our minds for ourselves.”
From the Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Thoughtful, Knowledgeable Guide To The Search,
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This review is from: Long Journey Home: A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
The search for the meaning of life--now talk about a topic for a book.Guinness knows what he's writing about. Not just his search for the meaning to life, but in his search his reading of philosophy, literature, art and biography and other seekers is included herein. This is profound and chock full of wonderful, deep statements of seekers. He carefully, philosophically goes through each step of seeking. His background of being born in Buddhist China to his time with Hinduism, then his education under classical secular humanism at Oxford well qualify him as such a guide. Just one salinet quote from this marvelous read is: "The secret of the search is not our 'great ascent' but 'the great descent'--of God toward us. Instead of the seeker finding love, love seeks out the seeker." Highly recommended for thoughtful seekers, to be given ones we know and for those of us whom God has already sought out and now on the way to serve Him eternally.
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Fantastic exploration of what the soul requires for meaning in life,
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This review is from: Long Journey Home Pb (Paperback)
Os Guinness uses anecdotes from the lives of various historic figures and mixes in discussion of the various approaches to finding meaning in life. Clearly this book is Christian apologetics but I think Guinness makes a creditable attempt to be fair to the alternative views, although his conclusion will surprise no one. Ultimately this book may be best suited for those Christians who've forgotten the value of their inherited tradition. Others may require something more in depth.
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A Journey Worth Making,
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This review is from: LONG JOURNEY HOME-HC (Hardcover)
This book is a very fine distillation of wisdom applied to the "big questions" of life's meaning and purpose. Os Guinness takes the reader on a tour of how the world's major religions and some of its greatest thinkers have wrestled with questions of ultimate significance. How does death and human suffering affect our sense of hope and longing for purpose and meaning for our lives? What is the place of gratitude for life's goodness? What principles are worth living and dying for? There are no prepackaged answers to these questions, of course. But whether or not we are to believe there is an answer and what road we take to lead us there are crucial steps in the journey upon which we are all embarked. Whether we conscious of it or not, life is taking us somewhere. When we get to the end, will we look back on our journey with satisfaction and fulfillment or with a sense of shame and loss? For those who feel that an unexamined life is not worth living, this book is provides much to consider. Philosophy and Religion are not an intellectual game we can play with detachment and control over the outcome. The questions are bigger than we are and the Answer must be bigger still. The implications of the search for your life's meaning, if you follow it honestly enough, will end up handling you rather than you handling them. Are you ready? Then read on...
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