![]() ![]() I expect to listen to this book many times. Fortunately the date already chosen avoided such a conflict. He was grateful for the example of a Noble Prize winner who concluded that he would rather not accept the prize if doing so required him to travel on the Sabbath. Sacks still respected Orthodox Judaism for many of the values it nourished in him. Sacks grew up practicing Orthodox Judaism, but stopped all religious practice as a teenager when his mother told him he was going to hell because of his homosexuality. The task of those lucky enough to live to be old is to experience thoroughly the beauty and the knowledge that we have been given and to welcome the uniqueness of those who follow us. The news is important he feels, but mostly for those who still have an active stake in it. He counsels that our uniqueness never survives us, that it is appropriate to leave and appropriate sooner or later to be forgotten. He is a brilliant scientist and physician. As in his many other books, Sacks is passionate about life, and brings to the brink of doom gratitude for being blessed by creation. Thanks to Audible and to the narrator Dan Woren for letting Sacks speak aloud, not just metaphorically. ![]() ![]() Thanks to those who brought it to press afterwards. He wrote it during the few weeks he had left before newly diagnosed cancer killed him. I just listened to Oliver Sacks' very short book, GRATITUDE. A Feast in the Valley of the Shadow of Death ![]()
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