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The Seven Cycles of Life : Seeking Healing, Connection and Justice in Anishinaabe Teachings.
From John Borrows, a pioneering legal scholar, educator and mentor to Michelle Good, comes a heartfelt book of transformative wisdom on how to achieve the loving life and deep and lasting connections we all yearn for. Borrows is a member of the Chippewas of the Nawash First Nation. He lives in Neyaashiinigmiing, ON.
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- ISBN: 9781039013667
- Physical Description: 344 pages
- Publisher: Canada : Random House of Canada, 2026.
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| General Note: | CO |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth PHILOSOPHY RELIGION |
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From John Borrows, a pioneering legal scholar, educator and member of the Chippewas of the Nawash First Nation, comes a heartfelt book of transformative wisdom on how to achieve the loving life and deep and lasting connections we all yearn for.
John Borrows, who grew up on a farm in southern Ontario, was the first in his family to go to university. When his own daughters were leaving home, he began to write them letters about how to create a fulfilling path through life, drawing on his own experience and learning. Those letters have grown into this captivating memoir and meditation, which deeply engages with the natural world, treaty law and the Anishinaabe teachings about the Seven Cycles of Life that Borrows learned from his elders.Â
The seven cyclesâthe Good Life, the Fast Life, the Wondering Life, the Truth Life, the Planning Life, the Doing Life and the Elder Lifeâdescribe life's stages, but they arenât linear; Borrows describes them as swirling together, from childhood to old age, revealing the most complex aspects of existence and the most perennial questions about how to live. His storytelling helps us recognize these seven cycles in our own lives, revealing beauty and meaning in both the mundane and the profound.Â
Borrows also offers us precious ways to connect with each other and ourselves and to broaden our sense of community to the natural world. He reminds us not to sit comfortably with what we think we know, but to embrace the reality that we are not perfect, and that others are not perfect. If we truly understand human imperfection, he writes, communication and love can flow.
The Seven Cycles of Life is a profound expression of wisdom from an extraordinary man that guides you toward a deeper understanding of how to live with intention, compassion and harmonyâsimultaneously warming your soul and challenging you to be more than you are.
