Ambition to Meaning: Finding Your Life's Purposes

Potential to be life-altering
I recommend the two-DVD, Deluxe edition, rather than the single DVD sold here. The first DVD is the "movie" (which is more of a docudrama) and is 2 hours long. The second is a supplemental disc containing about 2+ hours of interviews, additional movie footage, and music. Both DVD's are excellent and you may find they are worth a few dollars more for the set, as compared to the single DVD version that is available here. The second DVD contains the taped interview with Dr. Dyer that the movie was ultimately written around. It goes into depth into areas sometimes only touched on in the movie itself. However, if your more of a cut-to-the-chase-type, then the single DVD should work just fine for you - it's the one I've watched the most, and continue to go back to time and again.

The movie follows the stories of various guests checking into a beautiful resort along the California Coast: a young family; a wealthy couple with a troubled marriage; and my favorite, an...

the potential to be life-altering
Updated January 2011: Sorry for the duplicate review here... this originally appeared on a different page when these DVD's were sold in two different packaging sets (one was a single disc version and the other a two-disc set which I reviewed below). The duplicate review you see above appeared along with the single DVD version which has since been deleted, so the reviews have been combined.

Also worth noting is shortly after the original release of this DVD, the name was changed to THE SHIFT, and you can still purchase it new under this name if you desire. But it is the same movie as reviewed here. Note, the only way to purchase the original "Ambitious To Meaning" title is to buy it used, here. If you decided to do this instead of buying the re-named version, you might want to check to see if you are getting the single disc version or the double disc set, as this particular product page doesn't really make it clear which version is being sold here.

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Well I think I've outgrown this stuff
I thought the acting was excellent. Very natural, looked like real people to me and very convincing. Wayne's talking got a bit long in places. The point came across, but I thought this is too simple. The advice is easy it's putting it into real life that is the work. Knowing when to flow and when to assert, knowing when you're being selfish and when you are preserving your inner being in a healthy way.

I don't resonate with his use of God, it stills feels dualistic to me as if God is seperate from the ego and only in the flow, for me God is all there is and that includes when we use our ego and when we use our higher self. It kind of misses the point of the Tao to use dualistic terms I think. I prefer to use other terms and leave God out of it, but that's just me.

I kept watching the movie to find out the stories of the characters, and I thought the janitor had the most to offer as far as wisdom.

I think this type of movie is needed to balance out...

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