John Gray provides an excellent tool for helping people understand the value in leading a three-dimensional, integrated lifestyle--mind, body and spirit. He does well in helping us realize that success and happiness are not necessarily related. Gray tends to mingle the two terms, but the reader is able to infer that success is an objective measure while happiness is subjective. He could bring more clarity to the fact that success--i.e, where you stand in relation to a particular goal--is measured on one scale and happiness--how you feel about where you stand--is on another scale, thus the two may or may not be related. His view that a dual pursuit of money and inner peace are compatible are somewhat troublesome in that we are not perfect people living in a perfect world. Jesus, himself, cautions against this strategy.
Nevertheless, the elements of building a full, integrated life are carefully laid out with the Four Step approach. Gray supports each of these steps in subsequent chapters, especially as he gives us the critical needs that must be met before we can be whole people.
His section on meditation is particularly helpful, not only in emphasizing its outcomes but in actually telling us how to achieve the results meditation can produce.
I like the book and the author's very personal style. It is more like a conversation than a read.
