From the beginning stages of this project, my goal has been to help the reader awaken memories, explore personal feelings, and gain insight through reflection on Victor Hugo's text. I hope you will identify with my joy and pain, but move quickly to your own past and current experiences and their impact on your life journey. To that end, I have included an interactive element. A set of questions, under the heading, "Harvesting the Depth and Richness of My Life," follows each Reflection.
Ways To Use This Book
There are a number of possibilities for using this book for inspiration and personal growth.
Individuals have found it helpful to read a Reflection and spend time with the "Harvesting" questions.
The structure of the book is also well-suited for group discussion within small in-home or church-related journaling and sharing groups.
The Wisdom of Les Miserables is a valuable resource for leaders of human growth workshops and adult education programs. You will find ample material for the discussion of current issues related to individual morality (The Primacy of Conscience) and social justice (les miserables). The parenting sections (Shock and Awe of Parenthood and The Power of Story) invite discussion of family relationships.
However you use this book, I offer it to you as a gift, with a prayer that its message will lead you to deeper wisdom and provide nourishment for this portion of your journey.
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The book which the reader has now before his eyes is, from one end to the other, in its whole and in its details, whatever may be the intermissions, the exceptions, or the defaults, the march from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from the false to the true, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from brutality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from nothingness to God. Starting point: matter; goal: the soul. Hydra at the beginning, angel at the end.
Jean Valjean, Book Thirteenth, XX, The Dead are Right and the Living are Not Wrong
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