Life Is a Journey, Not a Race: An Invitation to Pause and Ponder
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Overview
Life presents us with challenges as well as opportunities. It confronts us with obstacles as we journey on, but it also offers us various pathways and routes that we can take. Comparing our life-journey to the travels we make in life, this book is an invitation to readers to face up to those challenges and to meet them through a series of reflections called “comma-moments": the chance to “stop momentarily and mull things over,” or to “create space in time” as they go about the business of living from day to day. Like commas in a sentence, which help us to read and interpret its meaning properly, a life punctuated with short reflective breaks enables us to draw out its meaning and significance. Drawing on his vast educational background and diverse global travels, the author shares with readers some "thoughts for food” while on our life-journeys. These reflections, as well as anecdotes and stories, also avail themselves of the real-life experiences of others and the wisdom of many contemporary voices and historical figures throughout the world, especially those who have been concerned with the kind of reflection that will help as we move on in life. In particular, it discusses a conceptual life-map to aid us navigate our way in life and to step up to its challenges.
“I love the storytelling and the journeying described in this
book! One is inclined to keep going, since the thrust is good and
timely. The tumultuous changes in our life journey indeed need, as
Santiago suggests, quieter and more serious reflection than Twitter
and radio phone-ins would allow.”
—Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland
“Reading these reflections on our life journey brings me to the
real understanding of philosophy: the love of wisdom.
. . . Readers are led to relish the experience because of
the persuasive way Sia describes the stages of the life journey:
the result of a ‘creative synthesis’ of what he observes in nature,
his meditation on stories and the traditional wisdom of different
cultures, and his insights. I enjoyed the book very much!”
—Paulus Budi Kleden, Superior General of the Divine Word
Missionaries, Rome
“Santiago writes beautifully and engagingly. It is certainly a
processive view of life and its meaning, and the use of creative
synthesis is helpful and careful. It is a kind of process
existentialism, certainly wise and encouraging of the quest for
wisdom.”
—John Cobb Jr., Claremont School of Theology, emeritus
“Here is a joyfully easy-to-read and profoundly important
first-person narrative and richly philosophical deliberation that
invites each of us to pause, and then to examine and fully
appreciate, the shared journey of life.”
—Theodore Walker Jr., Perkins School of Theology, Southern
Methodist University
“Sia once again delivers a book packed with application of
philosophy to life. The timely thoughts of the author bring
philosophy where it should belong first—personal introspection.
This is a timely book for people struggling to put the brakes on
amidst the dizzying pace of modernity and complexities.”
—Jesus Jay Miranda, OP, University of Santo Tomas
- Title: Life Is a Journey, Not a Race: An Invitation to Pause and Ponder
- Author: S. B. Sia
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666797473, 9781666797466, 9781666737714, 1666797472, 1666797464, 1666737712
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666797473
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T20:00:20Z
S. B. Sia is an educator and author of a number of academic
books, three philosophical novels, and several articles in
international scholarly and professional journals in philosophy,
ethics, education, and interdisciplinary studies.