The Voice of Knowledge by Miguel Ruiz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The thing about age-old wisdom is that it’s been around forever. It’s been around forever because it’s generally on-point, but this creates a marketing problem: how do you keep something like that from becoming a kind of intellectual commodity? Well you have to consistently re-brand the same insights in different ways so that, when newly-ready-to-internalize ears are hearing it, they’re not dismissing it as something they “already know.”
That’s a roundabout way of saying that I really enjoy the way Ruiz weaves together old stories and parables into new (desperately-needed) narratives. If you’re consistent and serious about introspection, you’ll “already know” a lot of what this book contains. But maybe, just maybe, one or two of the rebranded insights is able to get through your defenses this go-around.
I’ve probably read this book 4 times, and I’ll almost certainly read it 4 more times.
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