The Tao of Bowie
10 Lessons from David Bowie's Life to Help You Live Yours
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Publisher Description
What would David Bowie do? When life gets tough, who can we turn to for help? Who will help us find happiness, meaning and purpose? The Tao of Bowie suggests that we turn to David Bowie for guidance - and use his amazing journey through life as a map to help us navigate our own. Buddhism was central to David Bowie's life, but he was a wide-ranging thinker who also drew meaning from other sources including Jungian psychology, Nietzschean philosophy and Gnosticism. The Tao of Bowie condenses these concepts - the ideas that inspired and supported Bowie throughout his life and career - into ten powerful lessons, each with a series of exercises, meditations and techniques to encourage readers to apply these learnings to their own lives. The Tao of Bowie will help readers understand who they really are, clarify their purpose in life, manage their emotions and cope with setbacks and change. This fresh approach to the search for spirituality and happiness unites the perennial human quest for answers with the extraordinary mind and unique career of one of the most important cultural figures of the past half-century.
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Music critic Edwards (Belonging) invites readers onto a swirling, entertaining path of self-discovery by following advice gleaned from the life and work of the late rock star David Bowie. Mining Bowie's lyrics, public interviews, and written reflections, Edwards argues the musician's life provides a template for going from feeling "lonely, adrift, and desperate for help" to finding happiness, love, and even "equanimity and bravery" in the face of death. He explores and interprets lessons—such as confronting one's "shadow side" and opening oneself to love—gleaned from Bowie's lifelong personal pilgrimage toward greater happiness and purpose. Each chapter features contemplations on Bowie's personal evolution, providing a melange of meditation practices meant to help readers identify unmet needs, focus more on others, or label and name distracting thoughts and feelings: "You cannot discover your true self unless you are prepared to spend some time sitting quietly alone, but many of us would rather do anything else." This cheery guide, filled with insightful facets from Bowie's "magpie" approach to enlightenment, will appeal to fans of the music legend and spiritualists alike.
