Out of My Life and Thought

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<i>Out of My Life &amp; Thought</i> shatters the old myth &amp; allows us to glimpse the real Albert Schweitzer, a man whose moral example is as relevant &amp; compelling in the 1990s as it was in the 1930s on 1st publication. Eloquent &amp; heartfelt."--<i>LA Times</i> Of the many highly esteemed books Schweitzer penned in his life, he valued his autobiography most. He'd become a legend &amp; he wanted to remind readers that he was just a man, a man who had learned from many others. He'd been fortunate to be in the right places at the right times, to meet people of thought &amp; sympathy. He wanted to report his debts to them. He wanted to clarify his reasons &amp; methods for his undertakings &amp; to respond to some of his critics. &amp; he wished to honor something greater than he was: reverence for life. Reverence for Life became his life's motto, &amp; it brought him pain as well as joy as he sought to respect how precious &amp; unique each life is. He believed there was a way to live in the world, accept it, take joy from it--&amp; who could know this better than a man who had placed himself so much in it, given so much for it &amp; had been ready to receive experience as a gift to be thankful for. "This fascinating volume is the autobiography of the world-famous missionary doctor, organist, philosopher, theologian &amp; Nobel Peace Prize-winner, newly translated, researched &amp; corrected on the basis of recently discovered material."-- <i>Booklist</i> "An authentic 20th-century classic. Few books in our time have had a greater impact on the life &amp; values of untold numbers of people."--Norman Cousins