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This One Wild and Precious Life
- The Path Back to Connection in a Fractured World
- Narrated by: Sarah Wilson
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Alternative & Complementary Medicine
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One hitch with the Audible Version
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Summary
“Sarah Wilson is a force of nature - quite literally. She has taken her pain and grief about our sick and troubled world and alchemized it into action, advocacy, adventure, poetry, and true love.” (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Will you sleep through the revolution? Or do you want to wake up and reclaim your one wild and precious life? From New York Times best-selling author Sarah Wilson comes a spiritual guidebook for surviving and thriving during challenging times.
Many of us are living with the sense that things are not right with the world, as global problems like the pandemic, the climate crisis, political polarization, and social injustice mount, leaving us in a state of spiritual PTSD. We have retreated, morally and psychologically; we are experiencing a crisis of disconnection - from one another, from our true values, from joy, and from life as we feel we are meant to be living it.
Sarah Wilson argues that this sense of despair and disconnection is ironically what unites us - that deep down, we are all feeling that same itch for a new way of living. This One Wild and Precious Life opens our eyes to how we got here and offers a radically hopeful path forward. Drawing on science, literature, philosophy, and the wisdom of some of the world’s leading experts, and her personal journey, Wilson weaves a one-of-a-kind narrative that lights the way back to the life we love. En route, she shows us how to wake up an reconnect with life with “wild practices” that include:
- Hike. Just hike. Great minds throughout history have embraced the “walking cure”, and we should do the same.
- Go to your edge. Do what scares you and embrace discomfort daily.
- #Buylesslivemore. Break the cycle of mindless consumption and get light with your life: Ditch your car, stop shopping, and live out of one bag.
- Become a soul nerd. Embrace poetry, deep reading, art, and classical music to light up your intellect.
- Get “full-fat spiritual”. How to have an active practice - beyond the “lite” “rainbows and unicorns” - and use it to change the world.
- Practice wild activism. If you can get 3.5 percent of a population to participate in sustained, nonviolent protest, change happens. We create our better world.
The time has come to boldly, wildly imagine better. We are being called upon, individually and as a society, to forge a new path and to find a new way of living. Will you join the journey?
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- fairy2307
- 20-02-21
important book
This is the kind of book I've been waiting to read for a long while. So grateful to Sarah for stepping up to do this. She researched and created this informative and inspiring book, covering her personal experiences and how we can move forward in ours to help slow climate change. Interesting quotes weaved throughout from great thinkers and made me realise, yes I'm doing some things to help but there is still more I can do....I'm more hopeful this movement of people will expand and reach the tipping point needed to heal the planet, the creatures on it and ourselves! Thank you Sarah 😊🙏
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- Nigel Davies
- 09-02-21
Essential Reading
Sarah speaks the truth of why we are in this mess, how we got here, and what we can do about it. I couldn't have put it better myself and this has been something I've been passionate about for a long, long time.
How do we fix this mess of a planet and fight back against the forces of human darkness that seem hell bent on pushing us towards extinction? Well, don't count on your governments to do anything about it. They are merely puppets of the oligarchs. It is we, the people, the awake ones, the adults in the room, that need to take action and this book is as good a road map as you'll get on how you can do it AND find purpose and meaning in your life to boot.
Essential reading for everyone that wants their kids and grandkids to have a future. Start where you are and get busy. Now. We are running out of time.
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- Kirsty
- 30-01-21
Another truly meaningful book from Sarah Wilson
Having read ‘First We Make the Beast Beautiful’ multiple times, I was excited to read Sarah’s new novel. Again it is honest and strong - she sets out thought provoking and challenging insights that I feel I can relate to my own life, even though my ‘blocks’ aren’t the ones Sarah refers to. Her concepts of being uncomfortable, having resilience and living on the edge of life resonate so well. So, although I don’t agree with all of Sarah’s views - her ideas enable me to follow my own goals in a more ‘adult’ and measured way - to have hope, rather than optimism and to embrace challenges rather than fear them. In addition, the way she writes (or reads) makes me feel as though she is directly talking to me, which is great for an audible book. Thank you so much Sarah for another truly meaningful book.
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