Short Sleeves Insights: Live an Ordinary Life in a Non-Ordinary Way

Hal Manogue
Short Sleeve Insights (2008)
ISBN 9780977813032
Reviewed by Danelle Drake for Reader Views (9/08)

There is brilliance and wonder all around us.  Some pass each day by merely existing without thought to being.  They wake, prepare for the day, and proceed to do what they regularly do without much thought.  Many do this day in and day out until their time on earth is done.  For those of us who choose, each day can be a blessing, we get what we wish.  If we look for happiness and peace – it can be found.  Do you merely drive to work or do you spot the rainbow or the ground hogs on the way there?

“Short Sleeves Insights: Live an Ordinary Life in a Non-Ordinary Way” is a gift Hal Manogue has given.  In his daily blog Hal shares his thoughts which power him.  Not knowing what he will be covering each day he prays after waking, reads the news and nourishes himself; then he chooses a book from his collection and begins to read.  Within a few minutes he has the essence of what the daily message will be.

This collection of 137 short essays gives you something to think about.  Many positive thoughts and peaceful readings provide inspiration throughout the day.  If you are feeling overwhelmed you could choose the essay entitled “Stressed out!”  As you read it you realize the smallness of much of our thoughts and begin looking at the bigger picture. 

Inside each and every one of us is a being capable of experiencing a world of love, joy and profound peace.  As in his previous writings, Hal makes you sit back and think…and think.  Reading just one essay each day in “Short Sleeves Insights,” and really absorbing into you soul what you read will be a very positive change in your being.

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