One of the author's favorite New Yorker cartoons depicts Charles Dickens discussing his manuscript with an editor. The editor is saying, "I wish you would make up your mind, Mr. Dickens. Was it the best of times or the worst of times? It could scarcely have been both." This humorous message captures the concrete, "either-or" thinking that can cause a person to get stuck while on his or her journey towards living a bigger life.

Peter Allman has written a unique, compelling, yet simple collection of paradoxes that invite the reader to unlock the mystery of living a bigger life that includes...