BOOK PREVIEWS
in-depth book previews with chapter excerpts
How Compassion Works — The Depth We Share: Makransky Condon
When separation softens, compassion emerges from a shared depth of awareness
Monica Khosla: Shared Not-Knowing: Presence Without Answers?
There is a kind of presence that … appears when the need to know loosens, and what remains is simply what is.
Joanna Macy Wild Love: When Grief Belongs — As Connection?
belonging to a larger body that feels through me?
What If We Never Left Belonging? Joanna Macy Wild Love
belonging: “We are already home” ~ Joanna Macy
What Makes Fulfillment Feel So Elusive? Jean Klein I AM
“… Real questioning is openness to the unknown … ~ Jean Klein
Jean Klein: What Is The Living Gift Of Openness and Silence?
“… Our real nature is openness, silence …” ~ Jean Klein
How Real Is A Glimpse of Our True Nature? Ease of Being: Jean Klein
“… You don’t become aware, for you are awareness …” ~ Jean Klein
How Compassion Works — Receiving Before Giving: Makransky Condon
“Those qualities are part of our buddha nature — innate capacities of our underlying awareness.” ~ John Makransky & Paul Condon
Billy Doyle Mirage Of Separation: Gift & Power Of Silence?
“… all arises out of silence … and through silence …” ~ Billy Doyle
Tracy Cochran’s Presence: What Is The Gift Of Silent Waiting?
“… not speaking can also help you listen deeply and observe … Words need to be rooted in presence …” ~ Tracy Cochran
Jean Klein: Gift & Power Of ‘This Silence?’ Transmission Of Flame
“… All that exists appears in tranquility and dissolves in silence and tranquility …
Tracy Cochran’s Presence: Can a Quiet Moment in Nature Be a Gift?
“… an attention that was not thinking but seeing without judgment, receiving what arises …” ~ Tracy Cochran
Clear Seeing: How To Meet Anger or Shame with Mindfulness? Larry Rosenberg
“… Mindfulness is a power … Take each moment as it is, period. Give one hundred percent to that. When it’s over, let it go. Then bring one hundred percent of your interest to what’s next.” ~ Larry Rosenberg
Benefits of Pausing? Peter Russell, Alan Watts, Dalai Lama, & Elias Amidon
“… Just pause. Nothing else. And notice your experience. Notice what is there. In this moment …” ~ Peter Russell
Why Stillness? And Its Gift: Invitation to Stillness, Jean Klein
“… You must accept it as a fact that your fundamental nature is stillness. It is in this stillness that all activities appear … Discover yourself in stillness …” ~ Jean Klein
How Bodyfulness, Kindness Free Us? Christian Dillo Zen Practice
“… The motivation to do this practice continuously…is maintained through savoring how being present increases our sense of aliveness, joy, and realness …” … ~ Christian Dillo
Real Gift Of The Pathless Path? Nothing to Grasp Joan Tollifson
“… The Holy Reality is already here, fully complete. And if you think otherwise, then simply stop, look and listen” …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Nothing To Grasp: What Is Total Intimacy & Its Gift? Joan Tollifson
“… It is total intimacy—no separation … the awareness that beholds it all …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Nothing To Grasp: Celebrate Life As It Is? Joan Tollifson
“… When resistance and seeking end, the problem vanishes. I vanish. There is simply this present moment, as it is …” ~ Joan Tollifson
Billy Doyle Mirage Of Separation: Gift & Power of The Moment?
“… This moment is very important … it is timeless … live in it knowingly, be completely attuned to it …” ~ Jean Klein
Thich Nhat Hanh: Gift Of Loving Speech? True Love
“… in order to love in a real way, we need to learn how to be fully present in our lives …” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Gift Of Unconditioned Listening? Ease Of Being: Jean Klein
“… unconditioned listening is our real nature … unconditioned listening is silence …” ~ Jean Klein
How To Embrace Gift Of Endings? Pause, Rest, & Be, Octavia Raheem
“… Imagine you are sitting before an ancient river. Listen, imagine you can hear the river song …” ~ Octavia Raheem
Richard Freeman Mary Taylor: What Is The Art Of Feeling Happy?
“… feeling happy is a form of art: because happiness isn’t a mental construction or even a specific feeling. It is a reflection of life … ” ~ Richard Freeman & Mary Taylor
Gift & Power Of Silence? Billy Doyle Mirage Of Separation
“… to know yourself in silence … beyond the mind …” ~ Billy Doyle
Kabir: Face Of Fulfilled Desire? Painting From Love Palette Crowe
“… God is inside every person and every thing …” ~ Swami Ramananda via Thomas Crowe
Beyond Desire To Permanent Well-Being? Be Who You Are Klein
“… Of all of God’s creations his greatest creation was that of stillness …” ~ Meister Eckhart
