Ten Eternal Questions makes compelling reading for everyone looking for answers to life's biggest conundrums: what to believe? how to behave? how to find one's destiny? how to find peace? This is a collection of interviews with a unique combination of media stars and celebrated world figures providing a kaleidoscopic range of experience and knowledge for everyone seeking wisdom. Zoe Sallis has had lengthy interviews with a whole range of internationally renowned figures from the bestselling spiritual novelist Paulo Coelho to the rock mega-star Bono. The answers are spontaneous, anecdotal and personally revealing, often reflecting a long and thoughtful quest to make sense of life's many mysteries.
Ten Eternal Questions asks leading political, artistic, and religious figures the timeless spiritual questions. "What is your concept of God?" "Do you think this life is all there is?" are just two of the ten questions author Zo Sallis puts to such diverse figures as Nelson Mandela and U2's Bono, Shimon Peres and Jack Nicholson, Paulo Coelho and the Dalai Lama. Chapters are organized by question with extracts drawn from Sallis's interviews with almost 40 personalities, among them Bob Geldof, Gore Vidal, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Gianfranco Ferre, Farah Pahlavi (the exiled Empress of Iran), Anjelica Huston, as well as other artists, scientists, and religious figures. In these days of increasing commercialism and religious polarization, this absorbing book speaks to an impulse for a stronger spiritual dimension in our lives and its range of answersspontaneous, surprising, and insightful; provocative, considered, and personally revealingoffers readers much to ponder and reflect upon in their own quest to understand life's mysteries.