Fiction that teaches · Personal Development
8 Wisdoms
What if the answers to life's hardest questions were hidden inside eight simple truths?
Available in paperback from Amazon. Further editions and retailers will be listed here as they become available.
About the Book
After losing everything he loves, a young boy named Shinhon is left with grief, anger, and a driving purpose: an answer to why the world is so bad, and revenge.
His journey leads him to a mysterious Master who offers something Shinhon never expected. Not revenge. Not easy answers. A challenge.
To understand his life, Shinhon must first understand himself.
Through a series of difficult lessons, unexpected trials, and powerful discoveries, he begins a journey to uncover the Eight Wisdoms, timeless principles that reveal the difference between simply knowing something and living it.
Along the way, Shinhon is forced to confront his anger, his beliefs, his choices, and the meaning behind the pain that has shaped him.
Part adventure, part personal-development journey, and part modern-day fable, 8 Wisdoms explores the ideas that shape the way we live, love, choose, struggle, and grow.
It is a story about loss, purpose, awareness, and the realization that wisdom is not something you collect.
Wisdom is not something you collect.It is something you become.
What the Story Explores
Knowing and living
The difference between understanding a principle and actually putting it to work in a life. The Eight Wisdoms are only worth what a person does with them.
Grief, anger, and what follows
Shinhon begins with loss and the urge for revenge. The story follows what happens when those feelings are faced rather than fed.
"Why did this happen to me?"
The question almost everyone asks eventually, and what changes when it is asked differently.
Control, choice, and belief
How the choices we make and the beliefs we hold shape a life, especially when everything around us feels out of our hands.
Is This Book for You?
8 Wisdoms is written for anyone who has ever asked why something happened to them, and wondered how to take hold of their life when everything feels out of control.
- Readers who would rather learn from a story than from a list of steps
- Anyone carrying a loss they haven't finished making sense of
- People who have read plenty about personal growth and want something that stays with them
- Readers of fables, parables, and journey stories
- Anyone ready to be challenged rather than reassured
Praise for 8 Wisdoms
From readers on Amazon.
★★★★★
“It was awesome and inspiring. I didn't want to put it down.”
christina vandenbos, Amazon
★★★★★
“Great wisdom to learn and live by. Common sense. Surprise ending!”
Linda K. Schiele, Amazon
★★★★★
“It became a favorite bedtime read that my boys talked about for months.”
B. Rich, Amazon
★★★★★
“A meaningful story full of food for thought, but an easy read.”
Sara, Amazon Received a review copy from the author
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