Who We Are vs. What We Are: Establishing a Model of Cooperation in Our Relationships

By Lorenzo D. Leonard

This is a book for our times. Lorenzo Leonard renders a lucid and deeply honest look into the increasingly pervasive dissatisfaction with our way of life -- a way that supports incredible material wealth and abundance for some while ignoring the spiritual and emotional excellence of each and every individual. The author puts forth ideas not often voiced in the mainstream culture that lend a profound insight and understanding to the perplexing issues of our day -- cruelty, violence, and sexual and racial inequities as well as the difficulty for individuals to establish satisfying and mutually supportive relationships.We live in a society that teaches what one is -- typified by one's race, sex, role, social status, and material wealth -- is of far greater import than the essence of who one is -- typified by the inherent excellence and good that one embodies. The former requires the practice of domination, power, and control in all relationships. The latter would instead require that we adopt a model of cooperation that will ultimately lead to a new way of life in which dignity, emotional integrity, and responsibility prevail among the citizenry. Salient, understandable, intelligent, and insightful Who We Are vs What we Are gifts the reader with an eloquent truth and offers a course to emotional and spiritual healing well outside the beaten path.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966009266
• ISBN13: 9780966009262
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Puget Sound Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"