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  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  • The story is about heaven. It is not a heaven where you spend eternity in guilt-free bliss; instead it is a place where you gain a final understanding of your life and death. It is a place where you learn your last lessons – those that you wouldn’t understand when you’re still alive.

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    The story is about heaven. It is not a heaven where you spend eternity in guilt-free bliss; instead it is a place where you gain a final understanding of your life and death. It is a place where you learn your last lessons – those that you wouldn’t understand when you’re still alive.

    Lesson 1: “That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind. The human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”

    Lesson 2: “Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.”

    Lesson 3: “Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”

    Lesson 4: “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end. Love doesn’t.”

    Lesson 5: “They were there, or would be there, because of the simple, mundane things Eddie had done in his life, the accidents he had prevented, the rides he had kept safe, the unnoticed turns he had affected every day.”

    

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  • I have been meaning to read this book for a while. This week the movie was on TV, so I picked it up. It was a quick read and it made me think. The book looks at what heaven might look like. When Eddie died he went to heaven and met five people that he affected or they affected him. I made me think a ... Continue

    I have been meaning to read this book for a while. This week the movie was on TV, so I picked it up. It was a quick read and it made me think. The book looks at what heaven might look like. When Eddie died he went to heaven and met five people that he affected or they affected him. I made me think about what may seem like a minor incounter or incident may actually change someone else's life. Once someone told me to do something nice for someone without them asking and necessarily knowing what you did. This book made me think of that and the book and movie Pay It Forward. I think this is a great concept which is not put into practise near enough.Quotesp. 196Lines formed...five people, waiting, in five chosen memories, for a little girl anemed Amy or Annie to grow and to love and to age and to die, and to finally have herquestions answered--why she lived and what she lived for. And in that line now was whiskered old man, with a linen cap and crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all in one.I think this quote sums up the whole book because it brings together the whole thing.Discussion questions1. What would your heaven look like?2. Has there been anyone in your life like the characters in this book?3. Who would you guess you would see in heaven if you died tomorrow?

    

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  • Many people told me that this book is a lecture of some very well-known principles, and that it is just another one. Yet, how many people can really live them out? I read this book as if I am attending 'lessons' as Mitch put it. And these lessons are as interesting as some of the best presented s ... Continue

    Many people told me that this book is a lecture of some very well-known principles, and that it is just another one. Yet, how many people can really live them out? I read this book as if I am attending 'lessons' as Mitch put it. And these lessons are as interesting as some of the best presented sermons. I read the book on my way back to work and on my ride back to home. It serves as a good reminder of those basic principles that I should never forget, especially amid the busy day.

    

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• ― Joseph said on Aug 20, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Niente è per caso?
    Ogni persona che incontriamo nel nostro cammino lo condiziona anche quando non ce ne accorgiamo.
    Se in paradiso ci dessero davvero una spiegazione agli eventi della nostra vita sarebbe fantastico.

    

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• ― HippieClaire said on Nov 14, 2009 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • A man, working at an amusement park, died saving a girl falling off from the ferris wheel on his very own birthday. He died, but he also got to meet five people, whom he didn't recognize at first, and he realized that they all mean something in his life. Epiphany and surprises shine through the bo ... Continue

    A man, working at an amusement park, died saving a girl falling off from the ferris wheel on his very own birthday. He died, but he also got to meet five people, whom he didn't recognize at first, and he realized that they all mean something in his life. Epiphany and surprises shine through the book. I just can't stop loving this book. I have read it at least five times.

    

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  • A simple story that reminds us of the part we play in the lifes of others around us, often without realising.
    Synopsis:Amazon.co.uk
    An enchanting, beautifully written novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold. Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in the toil of his ... Continue

    A simple story that reminds us of the part we play in the lifes of others around us, often without realising.
    Synopsis:Amazon.co.uk
    An enchanting, beautifully written novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold. Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in the toil of his father before him, fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. Then he dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life. Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure? The answer is as magical and inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself.

    

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• ― Lindyloumac said on Nov 2, 2009 about the Audio CD edition| Add your feedback

Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit, their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "What was I here?"

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