Word: guru
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What is Tolle telling readers that they seem so eager to hear? His Zen-like message, reminiscent of that of hippie guru Ram Dass, is that happiness is achieved by living in the present: "In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve." But the book, awash in spiritual mumbo jumbo ("The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind"), will be unhelpful for those looking for practical advice. Of course, Meg Ryan loved it, and Cher says it changed her life. Hooray for Hollywood. --By Andrea Sachs
...from Detroit with a medical degree and a vague desire to change the world, Brilliant drifted into a surreal series of roles: physician to the Grateful Dead, co-star of a movie called Medicine Ball Caravan, seeker of enlightenment in India. The turning point came when, on his guru's advice, Brilliant joined the World Health Organization's effort to stamp out smallpox. "For a doctor, eradicating a disease is like climbing Mount Everest," he says. "It makes you want to find other mountains...
...GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN. The Mather House Drama Society presents Clark Gesner’s short musical based on the characters from Charles Schultz’s timeless comic strip “Peanuts.” Loudmouth Lucy , her blanket-loving brother Linus, Beethoven guru Schroeder, the perpetually wishy-washy Charlie Brown, his precoscious sister Sally and of course Snoopy, a somewhat delusionary dog, traipse through a series of skits and interspersed musical numbers that address love, food, music, bad grades and everything else that life brings along. Thursday, April 17 through Saturday, April...
...Baseball America’s annual summer prospect rankings—in which Hendricks was named the No. 7 prospect in the NECBL—college baseball guru John Manuel described Hendricks as “a big (6-foot-3, 215) power plant from both sides of the plate.” Playing with prospects from top baseball programs like Clemson and Arizona State, Hendricks was as productive as he was in the Ivy League, and the scouts noticed...
...engines. To publicize her sixth book, The Laws of Money, the Lessons of Life (Free Press), Suze Orman is going on a 21-city bus tour, a tactic more suited to a rock star than a personal-finance guru. Why not? Orman, the popular TV commentator and O magazine columnist, is a superstar in her own right. But is her advice solid? In her new book, she gives helpful guidance for those who have been bruised by the rocky economy, which is to say everyone. Her five laws (e.g., Look at What You Have, Not at What You Had), written...