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Title: The Hilltop Heart: Reflection of a Practical Mystic by Linda Gates, James Dillet Freeman ISBN: 0-87159-050-6 Publisher: Unity Pub. Date: July, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A LOOK AT OUR WORLD AND LIFE FROM A HIGHER PERSPECTIVE
Comment: I am indeed an admirer of James Dillet Freeman's writings, ranking him with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman.
Although this book (originally mistitled "Happiness Can Be A Habit" by an earlier publisher) is an extended essay, it is profoundly poetic and also profoundly spiritual. The title poem sets the tone for the book, and the forward gives insight into the author. He does not consider his writing to be truly his own, but the result of putting down thoughts that "Angels Sing In Me".
This book is a spiritual, joyful, loving look at the world and the life we live. Freeman shares his uplifting philosophy with us throughout the book...every chapter and part of chapter has important insights, though there are definite peaks. Chapter Four, "Life's infinite variety", begins with the beautiful "One morning in my garden", wherein he speaks of the life within everything...even in the rocks and the earth. The chapter ends with "The I of me" which contains some of the most meaningful lines in the book...starting with the sentence, "Perhaps I am most like a song" and continuing through the last line of the section. Chapter five, "God's free gifts", includes the section, "We are not splinter people" in which he questions if a God who is intelligence and love would have created "a world where nothing lives but something dies" and ends with the thought that this "is also a world where nothing dies but something lives!" In chapter seven, "Perfect world--perfect man", he gives us "A vision of perfection", a vision which might not be as desirable as one would think and follows up in chapter eight, "Your own heaven, your own hell" with an unexpected "vision of Hell", unexpected since the subject of Hell is hardly one you encounter often in his writings. And I think you'll definitely like that vison...it's not what you might expect. In chapter ten, "It all makes sense", he shares two of his best writings drawn from his garden experiences...the story of the cherry tree in the section, Life is effort", and "A fish not even gold"...both of these using nature to show us basic Truths. I hope I've done some sort of justice to this book...you'll find it a profound spiritual and uplifting experience.
Incidentally, the forward of this book as well as the story of the cherry tree and "A fish not even Gold" are read by the author on the audiotape, "Angels Sing In Me", also available on this site.
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Title: Story of Unity by James Dillet Freeman ISBN: 0871591456 Publisher: Unity Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Angels Sing in Me: The Best of James Dillet Freeman by James Dillet Freeman ISBN: 0871598000 Publisher: Unity Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Once upon a Christmas by James Dillet Freeman ISBN: 0871591197 Publisher: Unity Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $8.50 |
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