This novel impressed me beyond expectations. It was highly recommended by a close friend, but I had no idea how meaningful this book would become to me. It’s a pretty easy read (as intended by the author) but it hits home, and has become my #1 most recommended book. Anyone that reads it will absolutely love it.
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The Path of a Lofty Life
In the book, The Life of the World to Come, or another printing The Life of the World to Come, the author Dom Anscar Vonier speaks about the life we are destined for as “the true life of this world made eternal, immortal, carried to its highest potentialities.” Here, author Ethan Hawke speaks about the lofty life that’s attributed to a Knight and gives us instruction on how to live a noble life, therefore achieving the highest potentialities of earthly human living. It seems as if the loftiness that the life of a Knight achieves in this world is akin to the beginning of what Abbot Vonier says is transformed to the eternal, immortal life that is to come. He says that this life could hardly be enjoyed by someone not aiming for it, as by force. He says “One must be pure of heart to love the vision of heaven.” This purity of heart and its kindred virtues are alluded to, page after page. Obviously, this is good instruction for anyone to live a good life, to be happy in this life and eternally in the next.
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- Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2020Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
In the book, The Life of the World to Come, or another printing The Life of the World to Come, the author Dom Anscar Vonier speaks about the life we are destined for as “the true life of this world made eternal, immortal, carried to its highest potentialities.” Here, author Ethan Hawke speaks about the lofty life that’s attributed to a Knight and gives us instruction on how to live a noble life, therefore achieving the highest potentialities of earthly human living. It seems as if the loftiness that the life of a Knight achieves in this world is akin to the beginning of what Abbot Vonier says is transformed to the eternal, immortal life that is to come. He says that this life could hardly be enjoyed by someone not aiming for it, as by force. He says “One must be pure of heart to love the vision of heaven.” This purity of heart and its kindred virtues are alluded to, page after page. Obviously, this is good instruction for anyone to live a good life, to be happy in this life and eternally in the next.
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OparazzoReviewed in Germany on May 23, 2016
Gebrauchsanweisung für ein aufrechtes Leben
- Amazon CustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2021
Great reading and learning for young and old
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riccardo vianelloReviewed in Italy on January 8, 2020
Regole di formazione bellissime!
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- Luis Antonio del Valle Torregrosa Martinez de la FuenteReviewed in Australia on July 2, 2023
Learn and live the Values of a Knight
Reading this in my early 50's harks a reassurance that I have lived my life as best I can... notwithstanding there are many years left, and this tale definitely gives me faith and scope for an even more productive and fruitful life's endeavour into my future. More importantly, I plan to give this book to each of my grandsons (three) when they turn 13 (before the rot of society gets to them) so they can steer towards what is true, just and honourable amidst this world and life.Luis Antonio del Valle Torregrosa Martinez de la FuenteLearn and live the Values of a Knight
Reviewed in Australia on July 2, 2023
There is only one niggling detail, and this has nothing to do with the historical basis of the tale, or even the scholastic and academic research that went into this book; there is an account relating to the Duchess of York, with walks in the garden and 'cups of tea'. If we are to believe that this tale takes place between 1480 onwards, I'm sad to confirm that 'Tea' was not brought into Europe until the mid 1600's. I'm no historian (I'll leave that to Dan Jones) but after some quick and simple internet research, this fact was confirmed.
Thanks to Ethan Hawke for uncovering such a historical tale and for the academic background thrown into this remarkable piece. I shall reread it from time to time, just to remind myself of how to live like a Knight.
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