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This I Believe: Life Lessons
Published by Highbridge Company
Narrated by Ensemble Cast
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Broadcast weekly on Bob Edwards#8217; SiriusXM Satellite Radio and public radio shows, This I Believe features the voices, personal experiences, and profound insights of students, educators, politicians, artists, executives, the struggling and the successful. These diverse, engaging essays are valuable lessons for those just starting out or anyone dealing with life#8217;s challenges. Whether penned by the famous or the previously unknown, they reveal the American spirit at its best.Includes: #8220;Our Vulnerability Is Our Strength#8221; by Colin Bates, who cares for people with disabilities#8220;The Art of Being a Neighbor#8221; by Eve Birch, who was once homeless#8220;A Taste of Success#8221; by Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of the Harlem Children#8217;s Zone#8220;Listening Is Powerful Medicine#8221; by Dr. Alicia Conill, who learned an important lesson from an elderly patient#8220;Inviting the World to Dinner#8221; by Jim Haynes, who has welcomed strangers into his home each week for 30 years#8220;Finding Our Common Ground#8221; by Robin Mize, a liberal from a conservative family#8220;To Hear Your Inner Voice#8221; by Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jerseyand many more.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I’ve always enjoyed the NPR series This I Believe. It provides great perspective and can provide some great life advice. I remember the first book that came out. I got it in audiobook from the library, each story read from the author. Great leaders, thinkers, everyday people, and even some from the original series in the 1950s participated. Over time, I stopped listening and reading them. I think the stories from everyday people are just as powerful, sometimes even moreso. In this edition, it’s all stories like that. While many of them are very powerful, there are also many that seem to be reaching. Some seemed to make their story more than what it was. It reminds me of the early years of MTV’s The Real World. After the first few seasons, it was less a documentary about different people trying to live together and more about getting on the show to be a big star (and now it’s infected all sorts of reality shows). While many of the stories are illuminating, there are just as many that fall into this latter category. Favorite Parts:(From Caring Makes us Human)“There’s a lot of talk about what’s wrong with prisons in America. We need more programs; we need more psychologists or treatment of various kinds. Some evern talk about making prisons more kind, but I think what we really need is a chance to practice kindness ourselves, not receive it, but give it.”“…but by simply saying, “I need some help here,” he did something important for us. He needed us—and we needed to be needed. I believe we all do.” (p24)(from Peace can Happen)“Peace starts right here. Peace starts with you and me. It starts today.” She was right. I didn’t have to suffer personally in order to understand the pain of others. I believe that through compassion, peace can happen. It echoes from the heart of a single individual.” P. 31(from Walking in the Light)“I started to believe that no one is capable of knowing God’s specific identity, so I decided to seek him down my own path, because I believe that’s what he wants me to do.”“The higher power I now pray to gives me love, joy, and comfort. And I’m not afraid of him. I had to break away from the God I was supposed to believe in to find the God I could believe in.” p. 44(from I Could be Wrong)“The real error is to be too certain to see my mistkaes. Certainty becomes a prison for my mind. Humble uncertainty lets the truth emerge.” P. 69