The Key to LIfe

... you’ve always been looking for. After all, you picked it up and now you’re thumbing through it, right? You have questions. Probably first and foremost what is the key to life? What does it mean to be alive? So consider this:

We are transformers. We have more power than we know. This is how we do it. This is how we flip the script from the mean world we live in where the hard-hearted snarl that the kind are soft-headed. With uncalled for, unexpected kindness we watch others for their longings, and we make up for their shortcomings.

We play this outrageous game to make All That Is better. It’s why we were born. What could be better than to know that we become the flame flicker that ignites someone who torches yet another until we all become a roaring, miraculous bonfire that transforms darkness into light?

Are you thunderstruck? Don’t just stand there agape! You are that Greek word agape*. You have more power than you imagine.

*agape (ah-guh-pay) noun. Unselfish love and concern for the good of another. If you are standing there agape, not quite understanding, but intrigued, this book surely is for you.

John Monczunski, like you, is a bundle of atoms, tumbling through time, sparking awareness, sometimes sublime, memories, perceptions, intentions galore, action, reaction for nothing or more, a point of power, for better or worse, a line in the stanza, part of the verse.

REVIEWS

This slim volume surprised me. It made me nostalgic for the best things about the spirituality of my past. Addressed to an audience ranging from atheist to religiously devout, the Key to Life is not a proselytizing tool, but rather a guide to "hyper-aliveness."

Katherine Bond

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The Key to Life is John’s third little book that I have read. John is very good at pulling you out of the frenzy of your life into a little state of calm, as if his books were their own form of centering prayer. Wherever you might fall on the religious range: from candle-lighting rosary-reciting traditional Catholic to atheist-leaning agnostic, you will find each chapter to be a soothing confirmation of what is truly important. These might be lessons you have learned, but perhaps you needed a good friend to remind you. That friend can be this book.

Michael Molinelli, AIA LEED ap NCARB

It was with great pleasure and keen interest that I read The Key to Life by John Monczunski. I have to admit that at first my thoughts kept circling around certain phrases, something like "that takes guts" and "pretty ballsy." Then, as the author’s method and message clarified, I found myself trying to apply some of his keys to my own daily life, comparing the way I experienced a minute, an hour, a day, to the sublime method he describes in the pages of his book. As I proceeded, my mantra changed from "ballsy” to "yes, I see that," and "of course!”

I'm often amazed when, catching a few minutes of morning TV during breakfast, the never-ending chorus line of self-help book authors is trotted onto the set to talk about all the ways they've discovered to cope with their lives. Rarely do they have anything of consequence to offer. But Monczunski, in his own quiet way, presents a working plan, simpler than any diet, more relatable than any confidence builder, sharper than any relationship counselor.

Anthony DePalma, former New York Times foreign correspondent and author of The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times

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