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Title: Donate your money to the "author!"
Review: I like Stephen Mitchells REAL books very much !Unfortunately this is NOT a real book. It is mostly blank spacewith one quotation per page -- most of which are very, very brief.Many of the quotations are just fine, others seem to have been chosen because they sound wise (but, in fact are not).Spend your money on a nicely bound blank notebook and start copying down the best of the truly wise statements you find in your own reading. You will end up with a much more substantial and substantive collection than Mitchell has provided. He could easily have assembled this "book" in one or two hours.For those who never read well-known authors from the various wisdom traditions, then this tiny pamphlet might be a modest start. Other than that it seems mainly to be a way for Stephen Mitchell to increase his income with no effort whatever.
