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PERSONAL QUESTS

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Personal Quests for Wisdom

Life stories of personal quests for wisdom
that can inspire and help show the way

Finding Reality: The Journey through Fundamentalist Christianity, Schizophrenia, and Self-Actualization by Stephen Mufutau Awoyemi. An inspiring and personal statement chronicling the growth of self-responsibility and self-awareness in the writer as he struggled through psychotic breakdowns and realized personal and academic success. An excellent and very candid examination of the "rocky road" to personal wisdom.

MIND FLIGHT: A Journey into the Future is an exciting, insightful, and wide-ranging personal quest book by Thomas Lombardo and Jeanne Belisle Lombardo. As the authors describe the book, "Mind Flight weaves together personal narrative and intellectual odyssey, taking readers along on the author's pursuit of wisdom and enlightenment, his search for love, and his quest for an inspiring vision of the future. Encyclopedic in scope... Mind Flight draws the reader into the vast wonders and possibilities of the future, and is a stunning example of living the examined life."

The Table of Contents, Introduction, and first three Chapters can be accessed here on The Wisdom Page. (This file is in PDF format. To download a free Acrobat Reader, click here.)

The Gift and the Given is the story of Jerry Wennstrom, an accomplished artist who gave it all up and trusted the universe to open new opportunities. As he put it: "The gift we have to offer the world comes from the full potential of who we are, grounded in the trust and faith in a generous, and abundant universe." (.doc format)

Wising Up by Alan Nordstrom. Leave it to this Professor of English to say so much in so few words. (MS Word format.)

Personal-Quest Books are books that document the personal quests of individuals (real or fictional) for greater understanding, personal development, and wisdom.