Review
If Lao-tzu, who wrote the original
Tao, had seen DiMaggio and Griffey, Wilt and Michael, Jim Brown and Joe Montana, he might have been moved to compose a sports version of his classic. Bob Mitchell has seen them and has done it.
The Tao of Sports will improve your game--and your mind.
-Dick Schaap, sportscaster, ABC/ESPN
Sports is the defining metaphor of our time. In
The Tao of Sports Bob Mitchell shows with intense clarity and humor how sports can be a doorway for spiritual awareness and transformation.
-Dean Ornish, M.D., author of
Eat More, Weigh Less
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Book Description
Sports today seems all to often to be poisoned by greed, incivility, and violence. Part philosophy, part poetry, part common sense,
The Tao Of Sports is a spiritual roadmap to self-discovery and to understanding the great paradoxes of sports, athletics, and the Game: defeat and joy, struggle and serenity, anarchy and peace, fear and confidence. Witty, passionate, and thoughtful,
The Tao Of Sports is a Zen guide, a coaching manual, an athlete's playbook, and a very engaging, informative reading for any fan who ever rooted for a player or a team.
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