Sams life journey is a road of twists and tur , love and lo , poverty and wealth.
Sam grew up on the South side of Chicago, and after the lo of his parents Sam is sent to live with his Aunt and Uncle. He hears their whi ers in the night and knows that they can hardly afford to raise another mouth to feed. He works part-time jo sweeping barbershop floors and ru ing barefoot down coal tar streets delivering flowers, trying to ease the financial burden on his Aunt and Uncle.
When a position working in the church becomes available, Sam moves into the basement, and his little cot beside the furnace becomes his sanctuary. He devours all the books scattered about the church in search of the Light to end the darkne that he feels in his soul. But i tead of filling his soul with peace it just awake more questio .
Sams search for Truth takes him down various paths, many religio and beliefs, and he meets many people, all of whom turn out to be me engers in his life. He studies all of the religious denominatio Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, and discovers that the a wers cant be found from just one religion.
Sams poverty tur to riches when he becomes a stockbroker. He is surrounded by many friends and enjoys the luxuries of all that life has to give him. He marries the love of his life, but loses her when he becomes more a orbed in his work than his home life. The shallowne of his life makes him realize that there must be more.
Sam is faced with some tragedies in his life that remind him of his quest for peace in his soul. Black Monday wipes out Sams savings, and the California earthquake claims his home that sat on the hillside. But his life changes direction when he takes a job as an electrical engineer and he meets Sohrab, a man who would play a very significant role in his life. Through Sohrab and his wife, Sam again meets his soul mate and after twenty years he is re-united with his true love.
Sams journey to finding Truth is a journey of life; we follow him from his childhood of poverty and lo through his early adulthood where he questio his life purpose; through his years as a parent with a child and a loving wife, to his years as a grandparent holding his grandchild on his lap and feeling the completene of the cycle of life.
I enjoyed this book, and e ecially liked the short parables that Sohrab uses to show Sam the a wers that he is searching for. The best one is the story of the angel looking for fire in hell to light his pipe and cant find any. I tead he finds tormented souls who feel that they have wasted their lives and are looking back in regret. Sohrab teaches Sam that those who look for peace and ha ine often go about it backwards. And though Sam had been looking for peace and ha ine in his life, the more he looked the more it evaded him. In the end Sam finally experiences the onene of mankind and the Universe and he finds peace and love in his life.
The parallelism of the authors life and this story seems obvious as he uses his own name and the names of his wife and daughter in the story, maybe it is, maybe it i t, but in any case the story is wonderful.
A Journey to the Truth is a wonderful, light-hearted book that will make you stop and examine your own journey.
A Journey to the Truth, by Sohrab ChamanAra
Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2005
I : 1-4208-7728
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