Description: Four renowned professors--a physician, a theologian, an anthropologist, and a historian--offer a master class on living in uncertain times. Affirming that wisdom is not a destination but a way of being, the authors follow the paths by which diverse people have met illness, upheaval, and moral trial through acts of imagination, faith, and reflection.
Brief description: Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology and Director of the Asia Center at Harvard University, is the author of The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life and To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China.
Review Quotes: This eloquent and elegant book, written by four wise and worldly Harvard scholars, is a gift of love and light in our dark times! The central themes of storytelling, care for others, and rituals that cultivate mature self-knowledge in the best of the West and East take us beyond myopic learning and narrow erudition. Don't miss this intellectual and spiritual gem in the great tradition of the inimitable William James!--Cornel West