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What I am offering you in this book is the best deal you have ever gotten in your life, or ever will. Even though I know nothing about you, I'm willing to make this claim with complete certainty.'With elegance and absolute persuasiveness The Deal explains how forgiveness - rather than being a squishy, eat-your-vegetables virtue - is actually the key, perhaps the sole key, to a happy life.If you perform the one simple but vital forgiveness exercise in The Deal, you will forgive and be forgiven. You will be free. You will enter a new phase of life.A widely respected spiritual writer and thinker, Richard Smoley doesn't hand you the standard promise that this book will change your life. When you finish it, he concludes: 'It already has changed your life.'This is the simple, radical truth of The Deal.Forgiveness liberates the soul. Here is a book that covers just about every aspect of forgiveness. It is beautifully written, clear, and practical. Read it and leave it in a public place so that everyone else can read it.' Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul'Many books claim to be challenging, but Richard Smoley's The Deal truly is so. Following its simple yet radical premise could change your life.' Eben Alexander, M.D., author of Proof of Heaven 'The Deal is concise, compact-and powerful. If people would simply learn these principles, so clearly and simply articulated here, they could transform the world. I am going to get copies for friends and family. Because I care about my friends and family.' John Shirley, author of Doyle After Death'I have a standing rule: I read anything Richard Smoley writes.' Larry Dossey, M.D.'Smoley . . . is adept at unknotting the paradoxes of spiritual traditions and making new connections across centuries and languages.' Library Journal'One of the liveliest, most intrepid, and most gifted explorers of the spiritual landscape writing today.' Ptolemy Tompkins, author of Paradise Fever
