In Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her thoughts on relationships, love, inner peace, and contentment. During his beach vacation to relax and disconnect from the hectic outside world, Lindbergh masterfully provides food for thought to a reader of any age and gender. His poetic and fluid style allows the reader to easily absorb the themes of his meditations. She warns against the pitfalls of modern life due to what she calls frenetic pace, as opposed to a more fluid and natural primal rhythm. By distancing himself from the outside world, he is able to look at life, love and relationships from a different perspective. She also allows the natural world to help her make connections. It provides advice on how to deal with our relationships with other people and our ever-changing relationship with the outside world. Although the words are nearly fifty years old, Gift from the Sea still speaks powerfully about humanity. Using metaphors of different types of shells he finds on the beach, he talks about loneliness and the distracted lives we lead. Along the way, he shares simple yet profound meditations on life. He advocates a simple life that eliminates excess, the things that clutter and complicate our lives. “Simplifying external life is not enough. It's simply the outside. But I'll start from the outside. I look at the outside of my life: the shell. The complete answer is not found outside, in an external way of life. This is just a technique, a path to grace. The final answer, I know, is always within us." In his explanation of simplification, he explains that there are two types of rhythm: frenetic and primal. Fast-paced is when someone is dis… middle of paper… However, there were a few questions that began to surface in my mind. Why do some things in our lives cause us stress, something as simple as looking in the mirror too much? Why are we islands and why shouldn't we strive to always be with people? With these questions and different thoughts coming to life within me, I begin to have a clearer understanding of myself and what I believe. Through this book I was provoked to reflect; to a consciousness that I had never felt before. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, through her eloquent and poetic style, led me to meditate on the problems in my life. It brought an inner peace into my life that I had never felt. It allowed me to go on holiday to the seaside. It allowed me to absorb the timeless lessons it offered. I hope you choose to take the journey with her too.