Vital Signs: Discovering and Sustaining Your Passion for Life

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VITAL SIGNS is about what inspires passion and what defeats it. How we lose it and how we get it back. And ultimately it's about the endless yet endlessly fruitful tug-of-war between freedom and domestication, the wild in us and the tame, our natural selves and our conditioned selves. Each chapter in VITAL SIGNS will contain a core sample, an intimate biography of one of the strategies we employ to gain or regain our passion. The book, also, affirms the importance of courageous inquiry into dispassion - where we're numb, depressed, stuck, bored - so the reader can recognise and change these tendencies in themselves.

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Praise for VITAL SIGNS

This magnificent work brimming with gorgeous prose and life enhancing stories and insights reveals how the cultivation of passion is key to the energy, love, creativity, health, and just about everything else that is good and true in our existence. Levoy offers us a thrilling new map to the vital core of all our becomings. To read this book and follow its principles is to stop boring God!

Jean Houston, Ph.D, author of The Possible Human and The Wizard of Us, and Consultant to the United Nations in human and social development

The topic is stimulatingand Levoys faith that we can all find passion in our lives is genuinely stirring.
Publishers Weekly

Our society seems increasingly obsessed with security and playing it safe in every area of life. But along with this trend often comes a deadening and listlessness in livingas risk-taking, excitement, and novelty are shoved aside. Gregg Levoy's Vital Signs is a marvelous corrective to this trend. If you could use more passion, wonder, awe, and the sheer juice of being alive, this is your book.
Larry Dossey, M.D., author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters

If you want to fall in love with life, this is your guide! Vital Signs is a roadmap to living a life using your passions as a compass. Grab a cup of tea, find a quiet spot to sit, and dive into this book. You are about to set upon the journey you were born to take.
Dennis Merritt, author of Your ReDefining Moments and The Art of Uncertainty

Gregg Levoy has written a beautiful book about being enthralled with life by activating the passion that is within. His extraordinarily powerful storytelling, captivating language, and insights into what ignites human hearts with awe makes this book impossible to put down. He reminds us that our inclination to seek out enchantment and wonder needs regular maintenance and that raw experiences, intensity and aliveness, are what stimulate us to ever grander perspectives of this fascinating thing called life. I love this book."
Edward Viljoen, author of The Power of Meditation

Gregg Levoy has discovered the fountain of youth, and his soulful book is the map leading us to the buried treasure of our own passionate aliveness.
August Gold, author of Multiply Your Blessings

Gregg Levoy has the answer to one of lifes biggest quandaries: How do you find your passion Herein lie the keys to living in awe of life. Read this book and soar.
Laura Berman Fortgang, author of Now What 90 Days to a New Life Direction

"Vital Signs is a vital read if youve ever wondered how to discover or reclaim your passion. Illuminating how others seize the sweetest aspects out of life, Gregg Levoy unravels the art, wonder, and imperative of falling in love with your own life again and again. Every word is rain for the parched soul."
Tama Kieves, bestselling author of Inspired & Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in your Lifes Work! and A Year Without Fear: 365 Days of Magnificence

What a timely book this is, and so welcome. A yearning for passionate, engaged living is deep in our souls. That means living with more active appreciation, awe, delight and fascinationand with far greater happiness and care for others. Gregg Levoy writes beautifully, with all the contagious vigor and delicacy his subject matter so abundantly deserves. Renewal is possible at any age, he shows. So give this gorgeous book widely, generously, passionately. I will.
Stephanie Dowrick, PhD, author of Seeking the Sacred and Heaven on Earth


Acclaim for Gregg Levoys CALLINGS

"An absolutely superb book. I was stunned by it. It strikes right to the soul. It's like a remembrance of everything you knew but then forgot."
Jean Houston, author of The Possible Human

Gregg Levoy has written about the nature of guidance with a ringing clarity. CALLINGS is a spiritual seduction that gives form to a universal mystery. Id recommend it to anyone who is seeking to hold the divine hand through a transition in their lives.
Caroline Myss, Ph.D., author of Anatomy of the Spirit

Gregg Levoys wonderful book is not only filled with wisdom, it is inspiring and illuminating----a book of special insight.
Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations With God

Stunning! Wonderful! Levoy writes like a poet. His material is both spiritual and practical. I dont know another book that deals with callings in quite the same way.
Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words, Prayer is Good Medicine

Ravishing! This book is going to charge off the shelves. Its the kind of book people call each other about to share favorite passages. A book to savor.
Booklist

This inspiring book, elevated far above the category of self-help by Levoy's masterly writing, is a recommended guide for those who dare to examine their dreams and take action to explore them.
Library Journal

Beautifully written.
Book-of-the-Month-Club

"Sensitively written and appreciates the value of the journey as much as the end result."
Good Housekeeping

Solid and wise.
Utne Reader

In the crowded field of books about listening to the heart, Levoys guidance and encouragement are rewarding.
Publishers Weekly

Callings is a feast of prose, and filled with wise observations.
Intuition Magazine

An intelligent and articulate exploration.
Body Mind Spirit Magazine

"Gregg's book is a touchstone for anyone seeking something more out of their work, or making a transition."
Kansas City Star

Author Bio

Gregg Levoy is the author of Callings- Finding and Following an Authentic Life and This Business of Writing. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Omni, Psychology Today, American Health, Reader's Digest, New Age Journal, and many others-as well as for corporate, promotional, and television projects. A former adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico, and former columnist and reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer and USA Today, he is the recipient of a 1st-Place writing award from the Associated Press, and a Genesis Award for "Outstanding Newspaper Commentary" for a New York Times Magazine essay. He has been a visiting faculty member at the University of California, the University of Nevada, the University of Arizona, and Portland State University, as well as a faculty member at many national writers' conferences, including SouthWest Writers Conference, California Writers Club Conference, Reader's Digest Conference, Haystack Program in the Arts, Taos Institute of Arts, Austin Writers League, Wyoming Writers Conference, and Willamette Writers Conference.