An excellent book, beautiful and thought provoking.
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I have always had a deep desire to explore the areas of West Texas that Dan Klepper so very well describes in this book. This area of Texas has been on my list of places to visit for the last two years.  After reading this book my interest has not only increased, but I now have developed a plan.  The photography is engaging, the dimensions and angles used create a curiosity causing one to examine every object and every horizon.  On each page every picture is a stage with its own story.  The written material has depth and deep thought.  Very impressive detail.
1920434
A beautifully written book with a lot of food for thought.
The kind that you don't want to come to an end.
2454931
Deeply spiritual and thought provoking, excellent read.
2158647
This is a beautifully illustrated book for those 8 years old and older.  It challenges the young reader to appreciate just what freedom is.  One reviewer suggests that this is aimed more at the adult by the Amnesty International group, and yes, it is true that adults will be impressed by the book's message.  However, I believe even an 8 year old and certainly those 10 and over will get understanding through reading it.  I recommend this highly as a book of beauty and of wisdom.
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Other readers of this book have left some thoughtful reviews above. This is a great book, a thought-provoking book.  To me, a good book is entertaining; easy to get lost in. However, a great book usually present new ideas or perceptions that may be difficult to read and understand.  Books delving into religion are almost by definition, controversial and often subject to misunderstanding. Not infrequently a great book has new or potentially controversial ideas that require me to stop and think, research, rethink more, and eventually I may change at least a portion of one of my basic beliefs or find myself reconfirming one of my basic understandings. In the end, a great book gives me at least one new, life-changing idea or perception.  I may remember the book, but it is the new idea or perception that lives on forever.

Such was my experience with Paul Snider's The Coming Age of Personal Religion.

The book contained many statements and concepts that were thoughtful.  One comes to mind first - Paul Snider wrote The ancestral mind was very much preoccupied with convincing God he should do your will and avoid doing you harm. If you carried out the rituals and ceremonies just right, with exact precision, it might be possible to manipulate God to do your will.  Most religions, and most of us individually, have grown past this understanding of our relationship to God.  Pauls writing reminds me that we humans each have a unique level of development and awareness, that we grow both individually, and even collectively through organized religion, at different speeds according to our abilities and our understandings.  We find that we are in this together, each responsible for each other.

Paul Snider also noted that God could have created us as perfect beings with a single thought. But he had a better idea  A basic thought is that each of us, no matter how great our errors, is a son or daughter of God.  We have a duty and obligation to God and to ourselves, to help each other along the way.  The Coming Age of Personal Religion contains many concepts that you might enjoy contemplating in the light of your ever-changing personal understanding of our journey through this earthly existence. Reading Pauls book just might change you (and cause you to change someone else in some way, large or small).  Paul Sniders book changed my thinking in several areas  I am glad I read it.  Pauls book and ideas will affect my behavior(s) going forward in some small manner, and hopefully that will affect others also.  Like the butterfly effect, a small push is required to start a chain of events, and Pauls book can help us make some significant changes to the world.
3360647
A highly recommended book by all the previous reviewers, I will not disagree, in simple quotes, accompanied by beautiful photography of Ramana Maharishi and Arunachala, the complex but at the same time easy to grasp knowledge of Advaita Vedanta is distilled in to simple truths that pierce our Hearths with their beauty, and elegance, testimony of a great Sage of the Twenty Century. This is the type of book you keep by your bedside and open and read a page, at a time before going to sleep, it will put things back in to focus, knowing after all wordly things are of little importance when confronted by Truth.
3279449
This is a beautiful book, with a unique way of expressing the challenges, lessons learned and triumphs in life. Leah has an incredible gift with such elegant use of language. I found my reading experience grounding and soothing: a great vehicle to turn inward and examine your own life.
3160261
A beautiful, thoughtful book! Every page draws you in further with its colors and stories. A must have.
2021006
This is an excellent book! It is very informative and inspiring. The artwork is beautiful, but as clearly shared by the author- "it was about probing for lifes' deeper meanings through peoples' faces."She did accomplish that, and very successfully. One needs to read it to discover its great value and insight .This is a unique and one of a kind masterpiece!
1462838
This book is beautiful. You can read start to finish or just open to any page if you only have a second and find something interesting and thought provoking.
1074779
This is a beautiful book packed with information and insights. I highly recommend it if you want to gain greater self-awareness and understanding.
There is so much to take in, I will definitely be reading it again.
4575332
Lovely book. Well written. Engaging and thought provoking. A great read.
1280441
I found this book very interesting. It merits re-reading. Also its a thing of beauty, with great design and elegant images.
2588289
AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL AND INSPIRATIONAL
This book is for adults and children alike.  Beautiful photography, a book to read and expand our appreciation of our wonderful world around us.  Read one poem a day from this just lovely book and then go outside, and be restored. The poems are mostly short, varied about all aspects of nature, by famous poets and ones you never have heard of.  Wonderful to share with others.  Do dip into it and savor it.  All poetry books should be so artistically thought through.
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I am reading this book and it is really beautiful. It seems the author perceives everything around him so differently than the rest of us- in a much more rich, beautiful, and heart-filled way. This book feels like it has the power to open your mind and heart to the truth we all long to know and nourish a person in ways that ordinary life don't.
4709567
This is a wonderful book. Very thought provoking, heart warming, emotionally honest and inspiring. It will give you lots to think about. I highly recommend reading it.
3549376
This is a very reflective book. Not a whole lot happens.  However, it is very beautifully written (and delightfully British), and a great examination of the human condition.  Some in my book club thought it was sad.  I thought it was lovely.  A simple man looking back on his life and trying to make sense and come to terms of it.  Something we all should do.